Superhuman
[,suːpə'hjuːmən;,sjuː-] or [,supɚ'hjumən]
Definition
(adj.) above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance; 'superhuman beings'; 'superhuman strength'; 'soldiers driven mad by superhuman misery' .
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Definition
(a.) Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Supernatural, miraculous, divine, hyperphysical, preternatural
ANT:Natural, human, physical, unmiraculous
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Definition
adj. above what is human: divine.—n. Superhuman′ity.—adv. Superhū′manly.
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Examples
- They were exalted by belonging to this great and superhuman system which was beyond feeling or reason, something really godlike. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He did not hold enough to smother the cravings of his superhuman appetite. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Men pass through such superhuman loves and outlive them: they are the probation subduing the heart to human joys. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Then the superhuman and divine is absolutely incapable of falsehood? Plato. The Republic.
- To her mind, he was a pure, inhuman, almost superhuman instrument. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- By not having the superhuman cleverness to discover you in that frightful rush for the train? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In his closest meditations the life-long habit of Mr. Bulstrode's mind clad his most egoistic terrors in doctrinal references to superhuman ends. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- About four Melnosians had followed him, and these, with superhuman strength, pushed off a boat from shore. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The shock to my already overstrained nervous system was terrible in the extreme, and with a superhuman effort I strove to break my awful bonds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It was the highest that man had produced, the most wonderful and superhuman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And the mind has often a wonderful and almost superhuman power of banishing disease and weakness and calling out a hidden strength. Plato. The Republic.
- As I said this, I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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