SUPERSTITIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superstitious mean? 

• SUPERSTITIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective SUPERSTITIOUS has 1 sense:

1. showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance

  Familiarity information: SUPERSTITIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERSTITIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance

Context example:

finally realized that the horror he felt was superstitious in origin

Similar:

irrational (not consistent with or using reason)

Derivation:

superstition (an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear)

 Context examples 

But you can never tell what will affect the superstitious, and to my wonder, George Merry was greatly relieved.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He was in a panic of superstitious fear, and I am afraid the panic may spread.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You will think me superstitious,—some superstition I have in my blood, and always had: nevertheless, this is true—true at least it is that I heard what I now relate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Indeed I may be superstitious, said Mrs. Micawber, but it appears to me that Mr. Micawber is destined never to receive any answers whatever to the great majority of the communications he writes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yet his attention had never before been so sharply and decisively arrested; and it was with a strong, superstitious prevision of success that he withdrew into the entry of the court.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They are very, very superstitious.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

How long it had been searching me through and through, and over and over, I cannot tell: so keen was it, and yet so cold, I felt for the moment superstitious—as if I were sitting in the room with something uncanny.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)