Entry Word: physical

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 of or relating to the human body <physical sensations such as heat and pain>

Synonyms animal, bodily, carnal, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, material, somatic

Related Words anatomic (or anatomical), physiological; sensual, sensuous; hand-to-hand

Near Antonyms intellectual, mental, psychological (also psychologic); bodiless, immaterial, incorporeal, spiritual; ethereal, metaphysical, psychic (also psychical)

Antonyms nonmaterial, nonphysical

2 relating to or composed of matter <couldnʼt tell the difference between a physical object and a shadow in the dim light> — see material 1