superstitious
IPA: supɝstˈɪʃʌs
adjective
- Susceptible to superstitions.
- Arising from or having the character of superstitions.
- (archaic) overexact; unnecessarily scrupulous
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Examples of "superstitious" in Sentences
- The superstitious girl is terrified.
- The tribe consists of a very superstitious people.
- The Lights are superstitious and shudder at lightning.
- Now I wait in superstitious dread for number three ....
- The superstitious local Maori claimed to believe otherwise.
- The Cebuanos also have superstitious beliefs related to funerals.
- We have retained the superstitious beliefs of our animistic ancestors.
- The film plays on the superstitious beliefs Filipinos have about death.
- Because of their superstitious nature they refused to complete the tunnel.
- The people be very superstitious in their religion, and are of diverse opinions.
- The medieval understanding of mental abnormality was ignorant and superstitious.
- Until we can rid ourselves of what I call the superstitious awe of the Bible, we will never understand it rightly.
- 'When we spoke of this subject, after our inquiries were over, you reproached me with taking what you called the superstitious view.
- The instructor first disposed of what he called superstitious "heresies" concerning the gas, in order to prevent the men from having panic and
- Held in superstitious abhorrence by the rest of the crew, aliens by lack of any word of common speech, nevertheless they are good sailors and are always first to spring into any enterprise of work or peril.
- And moreover, if we believed that it would be unconditionally hastened by our getting the franchise, we should be what I call superstitious men, believing in magic, or the production of a result by hocus-pocus.
- Nevertheless, the instinctive part of me -- that part of us which refuses to fraternize with reason, and which we call the superstitious because we cannot explain it -- would not let go the spiritualistic theory, and during all my life has never quite surrendered it to the attacks of my brain.
- Societies of Paris, etc. Neurologist to Freedmen's Hospital and Epiphany Dispensary, Lecturer on Nervous and Mental Diseases, Howard University, Washington, D.C. THERE is a general impression that the explanations of natural phenomena, including human destinies, to which the term superstitious is given are usually attributable to the vestiges of traditional cosmogonies of our tribal ancestors handed down to children at the knees of their parents or guardians.