Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance;
- Example: "superhuman beings"- Example: "superhuman strength"- Example: "soldiers driven mad by superhuman misery"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Superhuman \Su`per*hu"man\, a.
Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as,
superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
superhuman
adj 1: above or beyond the human or demanding more than human
power or endurance; "superhuman beings"; "superhuman
strength"; "soldiers driven mad by superhuman misery"
[ant: subhuman]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "superhuman":
Christlike, Christly, Herculean, Hercules, amazing, arcane, brave,
celestial, courageous, dangerous, daring, death-defying, demigod,
divine, eerie, empyrean, esoteric, extramundane, extraordinary,
extraterrestrial, fabulous, fantastic, fey, godlike, godly,
heavenly, hero, heroic, hypernormal, hyperphysical, incarnate,
incarnated, incredible, intercessional, intercessive, legendary,
made flesh, mediative, mediatory, miraculous, mysterious, numinous,
occult, otherworldly, phenomenal, preterhuman, preternatural,
preternormal, pretersensual, propitiative, propitiatory, psychic,
redemptive, salvational, self-existent, spiritual, superior,
superman, supermundane, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical,
supersensible, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural,
transcendent, transcendental, transmundane, unbelievable, uncanny,
unearthly, unhuman, unnatural, unworldly, valiant