superterrestrial

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

super- +‎ terrestrial

Adjective[edit]

superterrestrial (comparative more superterrestrial, superlative most superterrestrial)

  1. Above the Earth or earthly concerns.
    • 1979, Henry Clarence Thiessen, Vernon D. Doerksen, Lectures in Systematic Theology:
      Secondly, modern criticism argues that a tangible or palpable body is not adapted to a superterrestrial abode. But this is ignoring the fact that the stars and the planets are superterrestrial, and yet they are material.