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Physical (adjective)
Having to do with the body.
“Are you feeling any physical effects?”
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Physical (adjective)
Having to do with the material world.
“It’s not so much a physical place as a state of mind.”
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Physical (adjective)
Involving bodily force.
“This team plays a very physical game, so watch out.”
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Physical (adjective)
Having to do with physics.
“The substance has a number of interesting physical properties.”
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Physical (adjective)
Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative.
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Physical (noun)
Physical examination.
“How long has it been since your last physical?”
“checkup|check-up”
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Psychical (adjective)
Performed by or pertaining to the mind or spirit; mental, psychic. from 17th c.
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Psychical (adjective)
Pertaining to the animal nature of man, as opposed to the spirit. from 18th c.
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Psychical (adjective)
Outside the realm of the physical; supernatural, psychic. from 19th c.
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Physical (adjective)
relating to the body as opposed to the mind
“a range of physical and mental challenges”
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Physical (adjective)
involving bodily contact or activity
“less physical sports such as bowls”
“a physical relationship”
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Physical (adjective)
relating to things perceived through the senses as opposed to the mind; tangible or concrete
“the physical world”
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Physical (adjective)
relating to physics or the operation of natural forces generally
“physical laws”
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Physical (noun)
a medical examination to determine a person’s bodily fitness
“at fifty-something, each year’s physical was a kind of lottery”
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Physical (noun)
stocks held in actual commodities for immediate exchange, for example as opposed to futures
“the exchange of futures for physicals”
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Psychical (adjective)
another term for psychic (sense 1 of the adjective)