Used countably to denote a student or practitioner of metaphysics; occasionally capitalized to refer to a poet of the 17th-century Metaphysical school.
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A person who studies or practices metaphysics; one who engages in abstract philosophical inquiry.
The village sage was regarded as a metaphysical, forever pondering the meaning of existence.
A member of the 17th-century group of English poets known as the Metaphysical poets.
John Donne is often studied as a leading metaphysical whose complex conceits challenged poetic convention.