superstitious
Speech parts
1. superstitious - Adjective
2. superstitious - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances.
Evincing superstition; overscrupulous and rigid in religious observances; addicted to superstition; full of idle fancies and scruples in regard to religion.
Overexact; scrupulous beyond need.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious.
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.
Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.