(a.) Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(3) There was no relationship between psychoses and supernatural belief types.
(4) Due to the supernatural aura surrounding mental disease, the lack of a sufficient biological basis, and the capacity to reduce civil rights of individuals, psychiatry occupies a special position among the medical disciplines.
(5) He added that the Halloween challenge will become an annual event for psychics and others who claim supernatural abilities.
(6) Their focus on supernatural faith – on healing and speaking in tongues – is shared with LoveBristol, but E 5 put less emphasis on woolly jumpers and green politics and more on slick online videos and social media .
(7) He has described it as "a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones", saying that, "a visceral sceptic such as Kubrick just couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel."
(8) But Thorne’s working life has been spent subverting genres, through his Bafta-winning work on supernatural thriller The Fades and Shane Meadows’s bleak, beautiful coming-of-age miniseries This Is England ’86 and ’88.
(9) It’s thoroughly appropriate that the last large-scale piece he completed was a community and children’s opera, The Hogboon, which will receive its first performance at the Barbican in London in June ; it’s based on an Orkney legend of supernatural beings who inhabit the prehistoric burial mounds that are found all over the islands, and who are entirely benign.
(10) The most relevant results were: the taxonomic determination of 237 vegetal species from which 399 curative products are obtained, in order to combat 57 illnesses, the most frequent of which are those related to the digestive system, the skin, the reproductive system and those of supernatural origin, which can only be treated by the use of plants in special ceremonies known as 'limpias', due to their peculiar condition.
(11) Analysis of the relationship of AIDS to traditional beliefs revealed that AIDS had been integrated into the traditional conceptualization of illness, health practices, and healing, and was attributed to both natural and supernatural causes.
(12) Multi-dimensional scaling analysis shows four clusters of mental distress: a) stress; b) western physiological; c) nonwestern physiological; and d) supernatural.
(13) The Queen is bonded to her country and people by supernatural compact.
(14) Herein lies the danger: it is in the interests of both western powers and Isis to grant this bunch of terrorists an almost supernatural horror.
(15) The movie might not have continued to inspire this level of devotion without its central, unanswerable mystery about the cause of the time loop; other Hollywood fantasies provide explanations for their supernatural events.
(16) Illness and the supernatural world are linked by the concepts of ghosts and Fever, the latter an index of ghost illness, deriving from a supernatural being.
(17) He designed a leaflet titled “Look After Yourself” pointing out clues that might distinguish between a person with supernatural powers and a person who “just appears to have them”.
(18) Illustrated by artists including Breno Tamura, Matt Rosenberg and Gus Storms, it's a supernatural-tinged tale of Mafia intrigue in which the soul of a murdered gangster, Tony Starks (Ghostface's regular alter ego), is bound up in 12 pieces of mystical vinyl.
(19) Breaking Bad and House of Cards are up against two subtitled series, BBC4's Danish political drama import Borgen and The Returned, the French supernatural thriller broadcast by Channel 4, for the international Bafta.
(20) BBC4's documentary about the supernatural on TV, Ghosts in the Machine, was watched by 304,000 between 9pm and 10pm.
Superstitious
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances.
(a.) Evincing superstition; overscrupulous and rigid in religious observances; addicted to superstition; full of idle fancies and scruples in regard to religion.
(a.) Overexact; scrupulous beyond need.
Example Sentences:
(1) This research examined three explanations for the "superstitious" behavior of pigeons under frequent fixed-time delivery of food: accidental response-reward contingency, stimulus substitution, and elicited species-typical appetitive behavior.
(2) 12.59am BST Kelsey McCabe (@kelseyyymc) My dad just told me he's been doing a special dance all morning so that the #STLCards will win tonight #Believe12in12 October 22, 2012 And that's probably the least superstitious thing going on in Missouri and in the Bay Area.
(3) Some village people think that the earthquake was caused by the tourists, but they are superstitious,” said Anna, who works at a tour agency that takes visitors to the national park where the mountain is located.
(4) His unreflecting faith in enlightenment, progress and psychiatry contends with the archetypal, the superstitious, the fact of human evil.
(5) All I know is that, within about a week, the idea had gone from a fanciful notion to a superstitious (and preposterous) conviction that I was put on the planet for no other reason than to translate this poem.
(6) I mean, it was sort of like his superstition, because all players are always superstitious.
(7) And wish you luck (I don't say 'break a leg' never been superstitious!)
(8) One of the coaches, the eternally superstitious Mario Zagallo, said that Barbosa might bring bad luck to the team.
(9) Perhaps the most superstitious Juventus supporters might even have been reassured to see this game start disastrously.
(10) I am pleased with the implication here, namely that fewer people are taken in by superstitious fantasy, but was left feeling deeply unsatisfied with the way the state hangs on to the idea that we are a religious nation – in particular a Christian one.
(11) So we kind of invented our own superstitious belief system.
(12) Is death from hexing limited to ignorant and superstitious tribes, or is it part of some general phenomenon basic to many forms of human communication?
(13) It’s unclear what will happen but they have very experienced expedition leaders with them and for the moment they have enough food and fuel.” The difficulty, he suggested, was that “the Sherpas are very superstitious and I can’t see any of them wanting to go back up the mountain after this.
(14) Knock on wood here – I am very superstitious – but we are very confident that it’s going to pass.” And it did.
(15) Anything superstitious I will not be telling a joke under any of the following circumstances: under a ladder; over running water; indoors; on the 6th or the 13th; facing south; near a precariously balanced mirror.
(16) Brazilians are very superstitious and they might need to stick to their routine from the group stage.
(17) Past and present treatments have been empirical, usually reflecting the prevailing views of epilepsy, be they medical, theological or superstitious.
(18) Although we often hear others, and ourselves, make references to the Sports Gods and pretend that it's in fun, there's a superstitious primitive part of us all that almost believes in them.
(19) But the crowd are prepared to wait... 10.09pm BST I don't normally publish emails like this, but we've had a lot of them in the past week I'm banned by my highly superstitious family from watching live coverage of the Olympics because I jinx Team GB," says Claire Robins.
(20) His 1828 poem about the dreamy view from a gate on this site celebrates the superstitious human habit of making wishes.