<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.</li><li>Concerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence, causality, or truth.</li><li>Concerned with first principles and ultimate grounds, as being, time, or substance.</li><li>Highly abstract, subtle, or abstruse.</li><li>Designating or pertaining to the poetry of an early group of 17th-century English poets, notably John Donne, whose characteristic style is highly intellectual and philosophical and features intensive use of ingenious conceits and turns of wit.</li><li>Archaic. Imaginary or fanciful.</li></ul>