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SUPERNATURAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
Example:
She doesn't believe in the supernatural
Synonyms:
occult; supernatural
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("supernatural" is a kind of...):
causal agency; causal agent; cause (any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results)
Meronyms (parts of "supernatural"):
theurgy (the effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs)
destiny; fate (the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman))
Meronyms (members of "supernatural"):
spiritual being; supernatural being (an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events)
Derivation:
supernatural (not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material
Example:
supernatural forces and occurrences and beings
Classified under:
Similar:
witchlike (being or having the character of witchcraft)
transmundane (existing or extending beyond the physical world)
talismanic (possessing or believed to possess magic power especially protective power)
nonnatural; otherworldly; preternatural; transcendental (existing outside of or not in accordance with nature)
necromantic (given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead)
metaphysical (transcending physical matter or the laws of nature)
marvellous; marvelous; miraculous (being or having the character of a miracle)
charming; magic; magical; sorcerous; witching; wizard; wizardly (possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers)
elfin; fey (suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness)
eldritch; uncanny; unearthly; weird (suggesting the operation of supernatural influences)
eerie (suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious)
apparitional; ghostlike; ghostly; phantasmal; spectral; spiritual (resembling or characteristic of a phantom)
Also:
unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)
Antonym:
natural (existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical)
Derivation:
supernatural (supernatural forces and events and beings collectively)
supernaturalness (the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces)
