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SUPERHUMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does superhuman mean?
• SUPERHUMAN (adjective)
The adjective SUPERHUMAN has 1 sense:
1. above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance
Familiarity information: SUPERHUMAN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance
Context example:
soldiers driven mad by superhuman misery
Similar:
divine; godlike (appropriate to or befitting a god)
herculean; powerful (displaying superhuman strength or power)
Antonym:
subhuman (less than human or not worthy of a human being)
Context examples
As I said this I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The struggle is over! said Mr. Micawber violently gesticulating with his pocket-handkerchief, and fairly striking out from time to time with both arms, as if he were swimming under superhuman difficulties.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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