physical

AU, CA, US, UK /ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/

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”).

Antonyms

mental, psychical, psychological, spiritual, having to do with the mind, spirit viewed as distinct from body

Derived terms

87 terms

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

Related terms

metaphysical, physicality, physically, physician, physics