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superhuman /ˌsuːpəˈhjuːmən /adjectiveHaving or showing exceptional ability or powers: the pilot made one last superhuman effort not to come down right on our heads...- While you expect them to leap across rooms, tossing characters around like rag dolls with their superhuman powers, such abilities are instead reserved for boss enemies.
- Their heroic scale, their superhuman beauty and power, and the swelling volume of their forms became part of Michelangelo's style, and through him part of Renaissance art in general.
- A 15 year-old girl with superhuman powers destined to protect the world from the creatures of the night armed only with a pointy stick and aided by some painfully earnest wise-cracking friends?
Synonyms extraordinary, phenomenal, prodigious, stupendous, exceptional, great, immense, enormous, heroic, godlike, Herculean, remarkable Derivativessuperhumanly adverb ...- It's just a fantastic example of his superhumanly obsessive grudge bearing.
- He writes for ordinary readers who enjoy thrillers and detective fiction, showing them the ways in which one man's lifelong maladies were superhumanly translated into a life long in melodies.
- We're going to do not only everything humanly possible, but even things superhumanly possible.
OriginMid 17th century: from late Latin superhumanus (see super-, human). |