metaphysical

Speech parts

1. metaphysical - Adjective

2. metaphysical - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning.

Preternatural or supernatural.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mystic theosophical difficult theistic psychical unearthly ideal spiritual theoretical intellectual philosophical psychological abstract spectral magical
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Antonyms

corporal natural certain human material physical
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Phrases with the word

be metaphysical metaphysical philosophy metaphysical scientist metaphysical naturalist quasi-metaphysical metaphysical idealism

Examples

Love is metaphysical gravity. Buckminster Fuller

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. Ludwig Wittgenstein

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. Karl Marx

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. Ayn Rand

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. John Fowles

Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case. Simon Conway Morris

Close letter words and terms

metaphyseal metaphysial metaphysic metaphysical idealism metaphysical naturalism metaphysical naturalist