Sample sentences for METAPHYSICAL

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Definition

relating to metaphysics (the philosophical study of being and knowing)

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relating to beliefs not proven with the scientific method

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without material form or substance

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highly abstract and overly theoretical

More rarely, metaphysical can reference a 17th-century style of British poetry.

RUH-SPIRIT: in Fremen belief, that part of the individual which is always rooted in (and capable of sensing) the metaphysical world.
Frank Herbert -- Dune

What metaphysical rapture could equal it for its substance, its frailty, and its beauty?
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
My old friend Ork sat shaking his head in dismay, saying nothing, brooding, no doubt, on the dark metaphysical implications.
John Gardner -- Grendel
It is at once imaginative and metaphysical,—in short, Greek.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
I'm not sure if the question's rhetorical or if she thinks I have a clue to her metaphysical mystery.
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
The testimony of his contemporaries proclaims—and his life fully confirms—his metaphysical and mystical interests.
Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
I am unversed in the metaphysical, have long become estranged from it, and if this can be so, I believe the metaphysical is as much unversed in me.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
I am driving and going seventy-two and praying not to get a ticket and playing Metaphysical I Spy.
John Green -- Paper Towns
But is this interpreter necessarily metaphysical and unembodied?
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
Not the metaphysical...the ones with the god stones and the sacrifices and all the rest of it!
Terry Pratchett -- Nation
This is extremely abstract and metaphysical, Juan.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
This was very metaphysical; not more so, however, than several observations Madame Merle had already made.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
The key to the modern systems of psychological interpretation therefore is this: the metaphysical realm = the unconscious.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Herr Naphta removed guilt and merit from the empirical world to the metaphysical.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
He has to metaphysically transport a large mass over a vast distance in a tiny period of time.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Her father liked the metaphysical streak which had unconsciously got into it, so that was allowed to remain though she had her doubts about it.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
You mean you don't have the comfort of an excuse, a metaphysical excuse.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
He said he wanted to 'dismiss all this meaningless nonsense which long has dominated metaphysical thought and brought it into disrepute.'
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
He was a metaphysical puzzle to me.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
Hunting was equally a devotion, full of metaphysical concepts veiled from Carol.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street

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