supernatural
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- noun
- /ˌsuːpərˈnætʃərəl/
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lo sobrenatural
- For the whole of human existence, people have believed in the supernatural.
- the supernatural realm
- power of the supernatural
- natural and supernatural
Atheist doesn't believe in the supernatural.
- Atheist doesn't believe in the supernatural.
- I think that Rob, the thing that led him to find the left, right game, his first experience with the supernatural, I think he saw her in this moment now.
- The peer reviews came back and at least one of the peer reviewers wrote back and said, you can't study this, it's part of the supernatural.
- You know, the supernatural, the supernatural aardvark.
- We gravitate most, I would say to supernatural.
- So he's sort of the most the person who's most experienced the supernatural.
- It's a representation of a belief system of the demonic supernatural.
- Anytime we see miracles, anytime the supernatural like that, it's literally God's Kingdom coming and just now he's here.
Examples
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Father Moore, you consider this tape to be proof of the supernatural?
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We are all supernatural eternal beings.
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It's hard not to believe that something supernatural is at work here.
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By then I was convinced the supernatural was involved ... in a very tangible way.
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The supernatural unites the universe.
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I have read several libraries' worth on the supernatural, investigated half a dozen cases of alleged miracles.
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Humans, the pilgrims believe, can be in touch with, can witness, the supernatural, the divine.
Academic text (1997) -
I have looked very, very hard sincerely trying to find something that seems supernatural and I haven't been able to.
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Rituals of healing are thus intimately linked to the supernatural and must be understood in that context.
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Many cultures have myths that explore the influence of the supernatural on human life.
Synonyms
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A place beyond the life we can see and touch where gods and unseen beings live
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A place beyond the living world where spirits live
A power beyond the natural world often seen in miracles
A place beyond the physical world like heaven
Antonyms
Compounds
How Unnatural
Surface Forms
Morphology
supernatural = supernatural (transparent) = super + natural
The noun is a straightforward nominalization of the adjective 'supernatural', whose meaning is compositional from 'super-' plus 'natural'.
Etymology
Supernatural comes from the parts super- ('above') and nature ('the natural world'). Think of it as the 'world above nature' — spirits or forces beyond the normal rules, which is why the noun means the world beyond nature and science.