supernal
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9.9
- adjective
- /suˈpɜrnəl/
- Literature
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supernal
- Many ancient cultures believed in supernal beings that governed the heavens and influenced earthly events.
- mystic and supernal
Examples
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These "fancies" are of a character supernal to human nature; they are a glimpse of the spirit's outer world.
Academic text (1997) -
The breathtaking view of the mountains at sunset felt supernal, as if I were witnessing something divine.
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But there is no supernal beauty and glory beyond the natural world.
Blog text (17) -
"Supernal Delivery Service."
Fiction book (1991) -
Supernal, sirenical singing like nothing I had ever heard before, as if hundreds of calla lilies had suddenly taken voice.
Fiction book (2002) -
He went on to write, "Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond."
Blog text (16) -
It was part of my grandmother's hidden supernal path into the mystery of things, a hard road, unforgiving, made of beaten flesh.
Fiction book (2001) -
Yet Bird will not ask us to accept without question these instances of "the mystic and supernal": "Long after all the others were snoring, I lay there in the dark and thought about Freddy's dream."
Academic text (2013) -
" Where were you," the Almighty roars, in supernal strophes that blaze through the millennia, "when I laid the foundation of the earth?"
Academic text (1998) -
The pinnacle of supernal achievement holds no more DiMaggios to play center field than Domingos to inquire about the location of Walse's sword.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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5.0
Connected with God or the place people go after death
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5.0
Extremely good or beautiful, as if from the gods
23
6.9
From heaven or like a god, not of this world
22
8.8
Very light and delicate in a way that seems heavenly
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9.6
Beyond the natural world and ordinary experience
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6.3
Coming from God or having a sacred quality
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9.9
A strong feeling that something is holy and full of mystery
Like the highest part of the sky or heaven
Existing beyond the physical world and not able to be seen or touched
A thing that seems from another world and gives a calm, spiritual feeling
Beyond the moon and ordinary life, like something from another world
Things that exist beyond the moon and seem strange
Not able to be seen, heard, or touched and felt in a spiritual way
Antonyms
How Heavenly
Surface Forms
Morphology
supernal = super (opaque) = super + nal
The root 'nal' is not independently recognizable or meaningful in English.
Etymology
Supernal comes from the Latin root super meaning 'above' or 'over', the same super you see in words like 'superior' that mean 'higher'. So supernal means 'from above' or 'heavenly'.