physical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
parapsychology
pseudoscience
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin physicālis, from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φυσικός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from φύσις (phúsis, “origin, birth; nature, quality; form, shape; type, kind”), from φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō, “grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).
Inflected forms:
form: more physical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most physical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: physickal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: physicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: physickal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of medicine.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Of medicine.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Her father was thrown from his horse, when his blood was in a very inflammatory state, and the bruises were very dangerous; his recovery was not expected by the physical tribe.
gloss: Of medicine.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Phisicall [translating φαρμακώδεις (pharmakṓdeis)] herbes, as Helleborum, Lingewort, or Beares foote.
Is Brutus sick? and is it physical / To walk unbraced, and suck up the humours / Of the dank morning?
gloss: Of matter and nature.
pos: adj
examples: Labour, then, in the physical world, is […] employed in putting objects in motion.
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
It's not so much a physical place as a state of mind.
gloss: Of matter and nature.
pos: adj
examples: The substance has a number of interesting physical properties.
Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains.
gloss: Of matter and nature.
pos: adj
gloss: Of the human body.
pos: adj
examples: Insults can hurt a lot more than physical injuries.
Are you feeling any physical effects?
A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force.
In mild cases of hypergonadism prior to puberty, the onset of physical and mood changes may not be abnormally early or significant enough to cause any psychological or long-term physical complications.
gloss: Of the human body.
pos: adj
examples: to get physical
gloss: Of the human body.
pos: adj
examples: This team plays a very physical game, so watch out.
Hardy is perfect. He’s physical and monosyllabic.
gloss: Of a piece of media, existing as a tangible object instead of being digital.
pos: adj
examples: There is just something so amazing about reading a physical book as compared to an e-book.
gloss: A physical examination.
pos: noun
examples: How long has it been since your last physical?
gloss: A physical manifestation of psychic origin, as through ectoplasmic solidification.
pos: noun
examples: "I don't mind readings and clairvoyance, but the physicals do try you."
Antonyms: mental
psychical
psychological
spiritual
having to do with the mind
spirit viewed as distinct from body
Related words: metaphysical
physicality
physically
physician
physics
checkup
Derived words: aerophysical
agrophysical
antiphysical
astrophysical
barophysical
biophysical
cataphysical
chemicophysical
chemophysical
cyberphysical
ecophysical
electrophysical
ethicophysical
extraphysical
geophysical
get physical
hydrophysical
hyperphysical
iatrophysical
macrophysical
mechanophysical
microphysical
neurophysical
nonphysical
pamphysical
paraphysical
petrophysical
photophysical
phygital
physical anthropology
physical body
physical break
physical change
physical chemistry
physical comedy
physical constant
physical culture
physical diagnosis
physical distancing
physical education
physical exam
physical examination
physical finger
physical geographer
physical geography
physicalism
physicalist
physicalization
physicalize
physical law
physical love
physical map
physical mediumship
physical memory protection
physicalness
physical page
physical person
physical plane
physical plant
physical quantity
physical relations
physical science
physical state
physical system
physical theatre
physical therapist
physical therapy
physical training
physical twin
physical unclonable function
physical world
physisorption
protophysical
psychophysical
radiophysical
robophysical
selenophysical
sociophysical
stereophysical
subphysical
superphysical
supraphysical
thermophysical
tribophysical
ultraphysical
unphysical
zoophysical
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