ALL meanings of metaphysical
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M m - adjective metaphysical abstract 1
- adjective metaphysical relating to metaphysical poets 1
- noun metaphysical The metaphysical poets. 1
- adjective metaphysical pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics. 1
- adjective metaphysical Philosophy. concerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence, causality, or truth. concerned with first principles and ultimate grounds, as being, time, or substance. 1
- adjective metaphysical highly abstract, subtle, or abstruse. 1
- adjective metaphysical designating or pertaining to the poetry of an early group of 17th-century English poets, notably John Donne, whose characteristic style is highly intellectual and philosophical and features intensive use of ingenious conceits and turns of wit. 1
- adjective metaphysical Archaic. imaginary or fanciful. 1
- adjective metaphysical Metaphysical means relating to metaphysics. 0
- adjective metaphysical relating to or concerned with metaphysics 0
- adjective metaphysical (of a statement or theory) having the form of an empirical hypothesis, but in fact immune from empirical testing and therefore (in the view of the logical positivists) literally meaningless 0
- adjective metaphysical (popularly) abstract, abstruse, or unduly theoretical 0
- adjective metaphysical incorporeal; supernatural 0
- adjective metaphysical denoting or relating to certain 17th-century poets who combined intense feeling with ingenious thought and often used elaborate imagery and conceits. Notable among them were Donne, Herbert, and Marvell 0
- noun metaphysical a poet of this group 0
- adjective metaphysical of, connected with, or having the nature of, metaphysics 0
- adjective metaphysical very abstract, abstruse, or subtle 0
- adjective metaphysical beyond the physical or material; incorporeal, supernatural, or transcendental 0
- adjective metaphysical designating or of the school of early 17th-cent. English poets, including esp. John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and Abraham Cowley, whose verse is characterized by very subtle, highly intellectualized imagery, sometimes deliberately fantastic and far-fetched 0