[
UK
/sˌuːpənˈætʃəɹəl/
]
[ US /ˌsupɝˈnætʃɝəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌsupɝˈnætʃɝəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material
supernatural forces and occurrences and beings
NOUN
-
supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
She doesn't believe in the supernatural
How To Use supernatural In A Sentence
- Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
- They contain a good deal of material of a rhetorical, formulaic, or supernatural character designed to bolster the Chosen One's claims to prophethood in the face of sceptical or prejudiced critics.
- This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight.
- The invention of photography was also quickly seized on as proof of the supernatural world. Times, Sunday Times
- The 16th century palace in south-west London is well known for alleged supernatural activity, but nothing suspicious has been caught on film before.
- A bereaved couple allow their dead son to be cloned by a sinister scientific institute in this clunking supernatural thriller. Times, Sunday Times
- And Miranda's supernatural visitations, which began on the night of the murder, are escalating in both frequency and intensity.
- All this is an unsettling misuse of the music, which was meant to convey the battle with a supernatural force of evil. Times, Sunday Times
- We begin with the issue of supernaturalism in religion and its supposedly superstitious character.
- “numinous” from the Latin word numen, which denoted a supernatural nonpersonalized being. ORIGINS OF RELIGION