of, connected with, or having the nature of, metaphysics
very abstract, abstruse, or subtle: often a derogatory usage
beyond the physical or material; incorporeal, supernatural, or transcendental
designating or of the school of early 17th-cent. English poets, including esp. John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and Abraham Cowley, whose verse is characterized by very subtle, highly intellectualized imagery, sometimes deliberately fantastic and far-fetched