English > supernatural: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material. |
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| Example | "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings" |
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| Narrower | apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual | resembling or characteristic of a phantom |
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| charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly | possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers |
| eerie | Suggestive of the supernatural |
| eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly | Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences |
| elfin, fey | Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness |
| marvelous, marvellous, miraculous | Being or having the character of a miracle / miracle |
| metaphysical | Without material form or substance |
| necromantic | given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead |
| nonnatural, otherworldly, preternatural, transcendental | Existing outside of or not in accordance with nature |
| talismanic | possessing or believed to possess magic power especially protective power |
| transmundane | Existing or extending beyond the physical world |
| witchlike | Being or having the character of witchcraft |
| See also | unnatural | not in accordance with or determined by nature |
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| unreal | lacking in reality or substance or genuineness |
| Opposite | natural | Existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world |
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| Spanish | sobrenatural |
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| Catalan | sobrenatural, supranatural |
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| Nouns | supernatural | supernatural forces and events and beings collectively |
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| supernaturalness | the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces |
| Adverbs | supernaturally | in a supernatural manner |
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