metaphysical

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Met=a=phys=i=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

metaphysical, a. [Cf. F. métaphysique. See Metaphysics.].

•  Of or pertaining to metaphysics.  [1913 Webster]
•  According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning.  [1913 Webster]
•  Preternatural or supernatural.  [1913 Webster]

  "The golden round
  Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
  To have thee crowned withal."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

metaphysical, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or relating to metaphysics.
2 based on abstract general reasoning.
3 excessively subtle or theoretical.
4 incorporeal; supernatural.
5 visionary.
6 (of poetry, esp. in the 17th c. in England) characterized by subtlety of thought and complex imagery.
--n. (the Metaphysicals) the metaphysical poets.

Derivative

metaphysically adv.

THESAURUS

metaphysical

Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, anagogic, animist, animistic, atomistic, bodiless, cabalic, cabalistic, cosmotheistic, discarnate, eclectic, empirical, esoteric, eudaemonistic, existential, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, incorporeal, instrumentalist, insubstantial, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysic, monistic, mysterious, mystic, naturalistic, nominalist, nonmaterial, nonphysical, numinous, occult, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, preternatural, rationalistic, realist, realistic, scholastic, sensationalistic, spiritual, superhuman, superior, supermundane, supernatural, supramundane, supranatural, syncretistic, theistic, theosophical, theosophist, transcendent, transcendental, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, unearthly, unfleshly, unphysical, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic

ROGET THESAURUS

metaphysical

Intellect

N intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle, rationality, cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties, faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius, brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers, wit, ability, wisdom, Vernunft, Verstand, soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core, the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle, brain, organ of thought, seat of thought, sensorium, sensory, head, headpiece, pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium, cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story, central processing unit, CPU, arithmetic and logical unit, ALU, metaphysics, psychics, psychology, ideology, mental philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of the mind, pneumatology, phrenology, craniology, cranioscopy, ideality, idealism, transcendentalism, spiritualism, immateriality, universal concept, universal conception, metaphysician, psychologist, intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual, ghostly, psychical, psychological, cerebral, animastic, brainy, hyperphysical, superphysical, subconscious, subliminal, immaterial, endowed with reason, in petto, ens rationis, frons est animi janua, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, mens sola loco non exulat, my mind is my kingdom, stern men with empires in their brains, the mind, the music breathing from her face, thou living ray of intellectual Fire.