"superphysical" meaning in English

See superphysical in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more superphysical [comparative], most superphysical [superlative]
Etymology: super- + physical Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|super|physical}} super- + physical Head templates: {{en-adj}} superphysical (comparative more superphysical, superlative most superphysical)
  1. Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.
    Sense id: en-superphysical-en-adj-fKhauzmo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with super-

Download JSON data for superphysical meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "super",
        "3": "physical"
      },
      "expansion": "super- + physical",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "super- + physical",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more superphysical",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most superphysical",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "superphysical (comparative more superphysical, superlative most superphysical)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with super-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, Joseph LeConte, Sight: An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision",
          "text": "We trace physics and chemistry to a certain point, but as we pursue the investigation we find something superphysical and superchemical, or else a physics and a chemistry far higher than any we yet know.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws."
      ],
      "id": "en-superphysical-en-adj-fKhauzmo",
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "explainable",
          "explainable"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "superphysical"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "super",
        "3": "physical"
      },
      "expansion": "super- + physical",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "super- + physical",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more superphysical",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most superphysical",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "superphysical (comparative more superphysical, superlative most superphysical)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with super-",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, Joseph LeConte, Sight: An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision",
          "text": "We trace physics and chemistry to a certain point, but as we pursue the investigation we find something superphysical and superchemical, or else a physics and a chemistry far higher than any we yet know.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "explainable",
          "explainable"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "superphysical"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.