1500-1600Medieval Latinsupernaturalis, from Latinnatura ‘nature’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
As for its strictly supernatural origins, there is no clear consensus on that either.
Lots of computer-generated technical dazzle in this fantasy about jungle animals escaping a supernatural board game and terrorizing a New Hampshire town.
Our only hope for a good time is for the story to accelerate into amazing supernatural thrills.
The Beowulf -poet often ascribes events to wyrd, and treats it in a way as a supernatural force.
Their supernatural protagonists had encapsulated the virtues and vices of human beings, thoroughly homogenized.
Unless you believe in some supernatural being, taking notes of our progress.
Was it some supernatural sentinel of the Scarabae?
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►supernatural/paranormal phenomena
(=ones that appear to be against the laws of nature)· Ghosts are one example of paranormal phenomena.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►force
· Both Lyell and Wallace opted for a theory in which a supernatural force had affected the later stages of human development.· He could be overcome only by a supernatural force.· The Beowulf -poet often ascribes events to wyrd, and treats it in a way as a supernatural force.· At times, you feel that you're being shifted by a supernatural force.· It seemed as if some supernatural force was intent on operating the branch.· Three, we are now within un-, sub- or supernatural forces.· By the same token, they say that the devil is actively at work as a supernatural force.· Persistent aggression requires an explanation in terms of exogenous, supernatural forces.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounnaturenaturalistnaturalismnaturalizationnaturalnessthe supernaturalnaturalnaturistnaturismadjectivenatural ≠ unnaturalsupernaturalnaturalisticadverbnaturally ≠ unnaturallynaturalisticallysupernaturallyverbnaturalize
impossible to explain by natural causes, and therefore seeming to involve the powers of gods or magic: supernatural powers—supernaturally adverb