Word Meanings - METAPHYSICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to metaphysics. 2. According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning. 3. Preternatural or supernatural. The golden round *Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of METAPHYSICAL)

• Intellectual
• Mental
• metaphysical
• psychological
• inventive
• learned
• cultured

Related words: (words related to METAPHYSICAL)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• INTELLECTUALIST
  1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• METAPHYSICALLY
  In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. South.
• CULTURE FEATURES
  The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.
• INTELLECTUAL
  1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts. 2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding;
• INTELLECTUALLY
  In an intellectual manner.
• CULTURED
  1. Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." Shenstone. 2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other
• CULTURAL
  Of or pertaining to culture.
• CULTURE MYTH
  A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.
• INTELLECTUALITY
  Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.
• LEARNER
  One who learns; a scholar.
• LEARNED
  Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of
• CULTURIST
  1. A cultivator. 2. One who is an advocate of culture. The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does notJ. C. Shairp
• CULTURELESS
  Having no culture.
• METAPHYSICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to metaphysics. 2. According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning. 3. Preternatural or supernatural. The golden round *Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal. Shak.
• INTELLECTUALIZE
  1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell. 2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities
• LEARNING
  1. The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy. 2. The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition;
• MENTALITY
  Quality or state of mind. "The same hard mentality." Emerson.
• LEARNABLE
  Such as can be learned.
• SELF-CULTURE
  Culture, training, or education of one's self by one's own efforts.
• CRINICULTURAL
  Relating to the growth of hair.
• OMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.
• SILVICULTURE
  See SYLVICULTURE
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• ALIMENTALLY
  So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.
• MENTICULTURAL
  Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• PIGMENTAL; PIGMENTARY
  Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison. Pigmentary degeneration , a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• REGIMENTALS
  The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• OSTREACULTURE
  The artificial cultivation of oysters.
• NIDAMENTAL
  of, pertaining to, or baring, eggs or egg capsules; as, the nidament capsules of certain gastropods; nidamental glands. See Illust. of Dibranchiata.