super-supernatural
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
8
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Above and beyond the supernatural; being unbounded by the supernatural limits, such as the individual soul.
Example Sentences
- "It is possible, and also probable, that a time will come when an invention will be produced to make the submarine useless. There are no anti-super dreadnaughts now, but there will probably come an invention known as a super-supernatural dreadnaught."
- "I was thinking about it last night: wondering where it would be. Somewhere in the spaces of the night — between the stars. Don’t you often wonder whether a soul has a chemical origin? Some day clever men will discover. Souls have substance, more tenuous than light. And light has substance. You can bend light with a magnet: I have seen it done. The ether has substance: compared with other unknown elements, ether may be as thick as treacle. Supposing some super-supernatural scientist could examine the ether as we examine a shovel full of earth? Is it not possible that the soul germ might be discovered? For a soul has no size and no weight and no likeness to man."
- "Now that the CLOD has decided that it is naughty to see the show, its business probably will become super-supernatural."
- "But why are we bound to treat what is natural as something actually superior to what is supernatural; as something which is not even merely supernatural, but is in the exact sense super-supernatural?"
Etymology
From super- + supernatural
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more super-supernatural (comparative)
most super-supernatural (superlative)
supersupernatural (alternative)