superhuman
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superhuman
Where it comes from
From Medieval Latin superhūmānus. By surface analysis, super- + human.
adjective more superhuman · most superhuman
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Beyond what is possible for a human being.
How often, during her young life, had she looked upon the face of the dead!—it was now almost more familiar than the living. Again she marked the still repose, the calm, cold hue, the superhuman beauty, the look which is not of this world, here strongly contrasted by the troubled countenance of Lord
Similar: suprahuman, ultrahuman
noun superhumans
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A human with remarkable abilities or superpowers.
Here is a man who, during a potentially testy moment of promotion, retained the clarity of thought to reach deep down into himself, locate the purest possible version of his personality and say: “Fuck you.” What a superhuman he is.
Similar: superhuman · Opposite: infrahuman, subhuman
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: powerful, godlike, divine, herculean, suprahuman, transhuman, ultrahuman, superordinary, supergodly, supernormal, metahuman, supranormal, transcendent, bionic, superreal, superrational
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adj beyond what is possible for a human being
| Español | sobrehumano |
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| 日本語 | 超人の chōjin no, 超人的な chōjinteki na, 神ってる kamitteru, 人間離れ ningenbanare |
| 中文 | 超人的 chāorén de |
| हिन्दी | महामानव mahāmānav |
| Kiswahili | -a binadamu wa ajabu |
| Português | sobre-humano, super-humano |
| Deutsch | übermenschlich |
| Italiano | sovrumano, sovrumana, superomista |
| Ελληνικά | υπεράνθρωπος yperánthropos |
| Română | suprauman |
| Русский | сверхчелове́ческий sverxčelovéčeskij |
noun human with remarkable abilities or superpowers
| 中文 | 超人 chāorén |
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