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| Main Entry: | physical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tangible, material |
| Synonyms: | concrete, corporeal, gross, materialistic, natural, objective, palpable, phenomenal, ponderable, real, sensible, solid, substantial, visible, environmental, somatic |
| Antonyms: | immaterial, mental, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | physical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning the body |
| Synonyms: | bodily, brute, carnal, corporal, corporeal, earthly, fleshly, incarnate, mortal, personal, visceral, somatic, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | mental, psychological |
| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beastlike; carnal |
| Synonyms: | beastly, bestial, bodily, brute, corporeal, earthly, earthy, feral, fleshy, muscular, natural, physical, sensual, untamed, wild, brutish, mammalian, zoological |
| Main Entry: | bodily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning animate structure |
| Synonyms: | actual, animal, carnal, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, gross, human, material, natural, normal, organic, physical, sensual, substantial, tangible, somatic, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | mental, soulful, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | brute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very strong; animal-like |
| Synonyms: | animal, beastly, bestial, bodily, carnal, feral, fleshly, instinctive, mindless, physical, senseless, unthinking, ferine, swinish |
| Antonyms: | gentle, mild, weak |
| Main Entry: | carnal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | erotic, sensual |
| Synonyms: | animal, bodily, corporal, corporeal, earthly, fleshly, impure, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lustful, physical, prurient, salacious, sensuous, temporal, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton, worldly, genital, unchaste, venereal |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, intellectual, pure, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | incarnate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in bodily form |
| Synonyms: | human, physical, real, tangible, embodied, exteriorized, externalized, in human form, in the flesh, made flesh, manifested, materialized, personified, substantiated, typified |
| Main Entry: | manual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | done by hand |
| Synonyms: | human, physical, standard, hand-operated, not automatic |
| Antonyms: | automated, automatic |
| Main Entry: | real |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | genuine in existence |
| Synonyms: | absolute, actual, authentic, bodily, bona fide, certain, concrete, corporal, corporeal, de facto, essential, evident, existing, factual, firm, heartfelt, honest, incarnate, indubitable, intrinsic, irrefutable, legitimate, live, material, original, palpable, perceptible, physical, positive, present, right, rightful, sensible, sincere, solid, sound, stable, substantial, substantive, tangible, true, unaffected, undeniable, undoubted, unfeigned, valid, veritable, embodied, existent, in the flesh |
| Antonyms: | dishonest, fake, false, feigned, imaginary, invalid, untrue |
| Main Entry: | sensuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gratifying to senses |
| Synonyms: | carnal, epicurean, exciting, fleshly, fleshy, luscious, lush, luxurious, passionate, physical, pleasurable, rich, self-indulgent, sensory, sensual, sumptuous, voluptuous, hedonistic, pleasure-loving, pleasure-seeking, primrose, sensualistic, sybaritic |
| Notes: | sensuous usually implies gratification of the senses for the sake of aesthetic pleasure; sensual usually describes gratification of the senses or physical appetites as an end in itself |
| Antonyms: | despicable, distasteful |
| Main Entry: | tactile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | touchable |
| Synonyms: | material, palpable, physical, solid, tangible, tactual |
| Main Entry: | tangible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | real, concrete |
| Synonyms: | actual, appreciable, corporeal, definite, discernible, distinct, evident, factual, gross, manifest, material, objective, observable, obvious, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, phenomenal, physical, plain, positive, sensible, solid, stable, substantial, tactile, touchable, verifiable, visible, well-grounded, detectable, embodied, incarnated |
| Antonyms: | abstract, imperceptible, intangible, unreal, conceptual |
| Main Entry: | terrestrial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | earthy, global, mundane, physical, profane, prosaic, secular, temporal, worldly, earthbound, earthlike, sublunary, subsolar, telluric, terrene, uncelestial, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | cosmic, heavenly, otherworldly |
| Main Entry: | medical examination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | health examination |
| Synonyms: | physical, physical examination, checkup, yearly checkup |
| Main Entry: | physical examination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | medical examination |
| Synonyms: | physical, checkup, health examination, physical checkup, physical exam |
| Main Entry: | actual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | truly existing, real |
| Synonyms: | absolute, authentic, categorical, certain, concrete, confirmed, definite, factual, genuine, hard, indisputable, indubitable, kosher*, physical, positive, realistic, substantial, substantive, tangible, true, truthful, undeniable, unquestionable, verified, for real, honest injun, honest to God, sure enough |
| Antonyms: | counterfeit, false, fictitious, imaginary, legendary, pretended, unreal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | earthly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically concerning land or its inhabitants |
| Synonyms: | carnal, corporeal, global, human, material, mortal, mundane, physical, profane, secular, temporal, terrestrial, worldly, alluvial, geotic, in all creation, nonspiritual, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, telluric, terraqueous, terrene, uncelestial, under the sun, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | heavenly, immaterial, spiritual, unearthly |
| Main Entry: | material |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bodily, tangible |
| Synonyms: | actual, animal, appreciable, carnal, concrete, corporeal, earthly, fleshly, incarnate, objective, palpable, perceptible, phenomenal, physical, real, sensible, sensual, substantial, true, worldly, nonspiritual |
| Antonyms: | ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, mental |
| Main Entry: | solid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard, dimensional |
| Synonyms: | close, compact, concentrated, concrete, dense, firm, fixed, heavy, hefty, hulk, hunk, husky, material, physical, rock, rooted, secure, set, sound, stable, strong, sturdy, substantial, thick, tight, unshakable, brick wall, compacted, consolidated, massed, rocklike |
| Antonyms: | fluid, gaseous, insubstantial, liquid, soft, vaporous |
| Main Entry: | temporal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | material, worldly |
| Synonyms: | carnal, civil, earthly, earthy, fleshly, lay, materialistic, mortal, mundane, physical, profane, secular, sensual, terrestrial, unhallowed, banausic, nonsacred, nonspiritual, subcelestial, sublunary, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | mental, otherworldly, spiritual |
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