Metaphysical adj
1 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 n
metaphysical adj
1 relating to or concerned with metaphysics
2 (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
3 (popularly) abstract, abstruse, or unduly theoretical
4 incorporeal; supernatural
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metaphysically adv