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Supernal

Definition: Supernal

Supernal

Adjective

1. Being or coming from on high; "interpret the plague as a visitation from heaven, a supernal punishment for the sins of men".

2. Of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "supernal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Supernal \Su*per"nal\, adjective. [Latin expression supernus, from super above: compare to the French expression supernel. See Super-.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Supernal

Synonyms: celestial (adj), ethereal (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: infernal (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Supernal

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Heaven

Adjective: heavenly, celestial, supernal, unearthly, from on high, paradisiacal, beatific, elysian.

Summit

Adjective: highest; (high; ); top; top most, upper most; tiptop; culminating; Verb: meridian, meridional; capital, head, polar, supreme, supernal, topgallant.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Supernal

English words defined with "supernal": celestialethereal. (references)
Specialty definitions using "supernal": grok. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Supernal" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (supernal).

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Commercial Usage: Supernal

DomainTitle

Books

  • Masters Among Us: An Exploration of Supernal Encounters and Miraculous Phenomena (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Supernal

Language Translations for "supernal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

qiellor (celestial, divine, empyreal, empyrean, heavenly), hyjnor (celestial, divine, empyreal, godlike, heavenly). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

възвишен (elate, grand, great, high, high minded, high-toned, lofty, magnanimous, noble, rarefied, soaring, spheric, sublime), небесен (celestial, empyreal, empyrean, ethereal, heavenly, skyey, spheric, sphery, superlunary), божествен (celestial, divine, glorious, godlike, heavenly, olympian, seraphic). (various references)

   

German

  

überirdisch (celestial, extraterrestrial, heavenly, overhead, supernatural, unearthly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υπερκόσμιοσ (supramundane, ultramundane, unearthly, unworldly), ουράνιοσ (celestial, empyrean, heavenly), θείοσ (celestial, divine, sublime, uncle). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שמימי (celestial, ethereal, heavenly, sublime). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mennyei (celestial, divvy, empyreal, heavenly, out of this world, paradisiac, unearthly), égi (celestial, heavenly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ultraterreno (supernatural). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

upernalsay

   

Portuguese

  

supernal, elevado (commanding, elate, elevated, exalted, great, high, high-level, high-minded, hightoned, high-up, lofty, overhead, raised, soaring, soulful, sublimate, sublime, tall), divino (celestial, divine, godlike, heavenly), celestial (celestial, heavenly), celeste (celestial, heavenly, sky-ey, unearthly). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

небесный (celestial, empyreal, empyrean, heavenly, skyey). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nebeski (celestial, empyreal, empyrean, heavenly, skyey), gornji (above, over, overhead, top, upper), božanski (divine, godlike). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

superno. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

övernaturlig (occult, preternatural, supernatural, weird). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tanrısal (celestial, divine, godlike, heavenly, holy, olympian, spiritual). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

високопоставлений (distinguished, high ranking, high-up, top flight), божественний (airy, ambrosial, celestial, divine, godlike, godly, heavenly, olympian, out of this world, supernatural). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cao thượng có địa vị cao, có quyền lực cao, ở thiên đường cao cả. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Supernal

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

superna, supernus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Supernal

Derivations

Words beginning with "supernal": supernally. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Supernal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Duperial, Duperval, spernal, supera, supercal, superkal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Supernal"

Words rhyming with "supernal" (pronounced 'Su*per"nal'): Adrenal, Affinal, Anal, Annal, Antennal, Asternal, Autumnal, Binal, Caninal, Carnal, Cerebro-spinal, Coeternal, Crinal, final, fraternal, Gastroduodenal, Geanticlinal, Geosynclinal, hibernal, hymnal, Infraspinal, Infrasternal, lienal, Lucernal, maternal, matutinal, Mediastinal, Mesosternal, Metasternal, Monoclinal, Omosternal, Paludinal, Paraphernal, Paternal, Penal, Phonal, Piperonal, Plenal, Postanal, Prespinal, Prorenal, Prorhinal, Ranal, Regnal, renal, rhinal, Semidiurnal, sempiternal, Siphorhinal, spinal. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Supernal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: purslane.

Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-p-r-s-u"

-1 letter: perusal, planers, pleuras, replans.

-2 letters: arpens, lapser, learns, lunars, neural, panels, pareus, parles, pauser, pearls, planer, planes, pleura, prunes, pulers, pulsar, pulser, replan, saurel, ulpans, unreal, unseal.

-3 letters: apers, apres, arles, arpen, aspen, asper, aures, earls, earns, elans, lanes, lapse, lares, laser, leans, leaps, learn, lears, lunar, lunas, lunes, lures, napes, nares, neaps.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-p-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: prunellas, purslanes, superlain, underlaps, uplanders.

 

+2 letters: peninsular, pleasuring, superclean, superlunar, supernally, superplane, supplanter, suprarenal, underplays.

 

+3 letters: aquaplaners, insuperable, insuperably, leprechauns, pastureland, republicans, superaltern, superlunary, supernormal, superplanes, supplanters, suprarenals, ungraspable.

 

+4 letters: antipleasure, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, pasturelands, pelargoniums, planetariums, porcelaneous, premenstrual, proconsulate, superalterns, superhumanly, supernatural, thunderclaps.

 

+5 letters: alphanumerics, antipleasures, ceruloplasmin, gelandesprung, inoperculates, insupportable, leprechaunish, paralanguages, polyurethanes, porcellaneous, prayerfulness, preindustrial, premenopausal, proconsulates, repopulations, republicanism, spiritualness, superableness, supercalender, supercriminal, supermilitant, supernational, supernaturals, supernormally, superpersonal, superregional, supersalesman, supersalesmen, supplementary, unrespectable, unspectacular, unsupportable, unsurpassable, upperclassman, upperclassmen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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