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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

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

2. of heaven or the spirit;
- Example: "celestial peace"
- Example: "ethereal melodies"
- Example: "the supernal happiness of a quiet death"
[syn: celestial, ethereal, supernal]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Supernal \Su*per"nal\, a. [L. supernus, from super above: cf. F. supernel. See Super-.] 1. Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as, the supernal orbs; supernal regions. "That supernal judge." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly; as, supernal grace. [1913 Webster] Not by the sufferance of supernal power. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

supernal adj 1: being or coming from on high; "interpret the plague as a visitation from heaven, a supernal punishment for the sins of men" [ant: infernal] 2: of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death" [syn: celestial, ethereal, supernal]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

57 Moby Thesaurus words for "supernal": Elysian, Olympian, aerial, airy, altitudinous, ascending, aspiring, beatific, beatified, blessed, celestial, colossal, dominating, elevated, eminent, ethereal, exalted, extramundane, extraterrestrial, from on high, glorified, haughty, heavenly, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, in glory, lofty, monumental, mounting, otherworldly, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisic, prominent, soaring, spiring, steep, sublime, superlative, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly, unworldly, uplifted, upreared