metaphysical

[met-uh-fiz-i-kuhl] / ˌmɛt əˈfɪz ɪ kəl /

ADJECTIVE

not physical; without physical presence

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abstract abstruse esoteric mystical philosophical spiritual supernatural theoretical

WEAK

bodiless deep difficult discarnate eternal fundamental high-flown ideal immaterial impalpable incorporeal insubstantial intangible intellectual jesuitic nonmaterial nonphysical numinous oversubtle preternatural profound recondite superhuman superior supermundane suprahuman supramundane supranatural transcendental unearthly unfleshly universal unphysical unreal unsubstantial

Antonyms

STRONGEST

concrete factual obvious physical real

WEAK

material objective solid substantial

Example Sentences

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"Putin needs to show that the war is not his personal military activity, but that there is a higher, metaphysical mission in Russia that he is trying to fulfil."

From Reuters

And it’s possible to benefit from those even if there’s nothing metaphysical going on.

From Los Angeles Times

The air around his cypresses remains thick with opposing approaches, from the metaphysical to the earnestly botanical to the suddenly topical question raised by the Case of the Embedded Pebbles.

From New York Times

“I’m a cross section of the clinical and the metaphysical,” he says, “and my work is the tension between them. My work is only tension, it’s only in-betweens.”

From Los Angeles Times

Then the Twin Towers crumbled and there was an immediate need to fall into one another, into the metaphysical beauty of human connection, to remind ourselves the world still existed.

From Salon

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