Definition of Superstitious

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Superstitious

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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Superstitious Quotations

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Sun Tzu

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
Meryl Streep

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.
Gwyneth Paltrow

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
Henry James

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.
Steven Gerrard

I am a very superstitious person.
Luciano Pavarotti

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove to-day on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
Lafcadio Hearn

I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.
Ray Davies

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
Josh McDowell

Superstitious Translations

superstitious in Dutch is bijgelovig
superstitious in Spanish is supersticioso
superstitious in Swedish is skrockful, vidskeplig

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