Meaning

Resembling or characteristic of a superman..

Example Sentences

There were seals on the rocks, and others on the beach, though their silly faces gave no evidence of the supermannish qualities attributed to them by Mr. E. V. Lucas.

It is very probable that Nietzsche frequently felt himself so supermannish as to regard the clouds of earth over which he had to step in order to keep his head in the clouds.

Her influence has been held supermannish—daimonic or demonic—under the prevalence of ideals monastic, chivalric, or platonic; […]

Her second lover is as disagreeable a cad as one is likely to meet, who exhibits a supermannish selfishness in his love that makes one wonder why he should have consented to a secret marriage.

Pulled by that “supermannish” strength the princess rises from bed and, in order to “celebrate” her husband’s death, offers herself naked at the window.

The real body can only ever be an imperfect, failed imitation of the higher supermannish archetype.

‘Der Sieger’ (The Victor) from 1927, used a large section of a bulky torso and a composite head, twisted to gaze into that middle distance familiar from propaganda imagery of supermannish strong heroes.

Though Engels and others saw in Carlyle a compelling arguer against social ills, his own ideology with its worship of supermannish heroes, ‘the select of the earth’, takes its bearings from a secularization of the Calvinist idea of the elect, and points towards both Nietzsche and fascism.

Word Forms

• more supermannish
• most supermannish

When Should You Use Supermannish?

Use supermannish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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