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ADJECTIVE
  1. of heaven or the spirit
    ethereal melodies
    celestial peace
    the supernal happiness of a quiet death
  2. being or coming from on high
    interpret the plague as a visitation from heaven, a supernal punishment for the sins of men

How To Use supernal In A Sentence

  • You may be trying to invoke the ‘echos from the supernal world’ but they're everywhere and where-ever people say they're doing magic there's a bit of truth there.
  • The exterior glass walls of this sculpture hall are coated with tiny white ceramic dots (called frits) that screen city views and suffuse a supernal glow heightened by filtered daylight that streams down from deeply inset skylights ” an effect equal to the lighting of Piano at his best ” made possible when Tschumi rotated the story above this middle level of the museum. Grading the New Acropolis
  • For similar reasons, most people, especially most who believe in Heaven, also consider Heaven, or whatever, as a special kind of supernal real estate, as Owen Gingerich, author of the foreword to a recent English edition of Johannes Kepler's LaRouche's Latest
  • These three constitute the Supernal Triad - those spheres which are wholly outside the realm of direct human experience for all but the most disciplined and ascetic individuals.
  • Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. John W. Whitehead: Have a Very Merry Celluloid Christmas
  • In the tiny chalets perched on the mountain ridges, folks literally dwell in cloudland, and enjoy a kind of supernal existence, having for near neighbours the eagles in their eyries and the fleet-footed chamois or izard. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
  • the supernal happiness of a quiet death
  • The second obvious element in Shelley's poetry is his love of beauty, not the common beauty of nature or humanity which Wordsworth celebrated, but a strange "supernal" beauty with no "earthly" quality or reality. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
  • This created the abyss between the real world and the supernal world.
  • Contrast Zen, which is similar supernal understanding experienced as a single brief flash.
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