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Synonyms for superstitious
ˌsu pərˈstɪʃ əssu·per·sti·tious
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Princeton's WordNet
superstitiousadjective
showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance
"finally realized that the horror he felt was superstitious in origin"
Antonyms:
rational
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Because when you’re doing a play and you’re with your family, other actors, technicians, you do silly things. You do silly things. And it becomes kind of superstitious, if you don’t do it every night, you think it’s going to jinx the show, i think Dustin Hoffman was — I ’m not saying I’ve done similar things like what Dustin Hoffman did, Liam Neesonhas know. Apparently Dustin Hoffman touched another girl’s breast and stuff. But it’s childhood stuff, what Dustin Hoffman was doing.
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
I went back the following day and placed it in an undisturbed part near the area where I found it and buried it slightly just to avoid any bad juju, the most bizarre thing is that I've never believed in anything like this but I’m not willing to take the risk. So I’ve suddenly become all superstitious within a shovel full. I did get a bit creeped out by it all.
- We're precious yet we have a superstitious way of being rambunctious!
The Dustin Hoffman thing, I’m on the fence about that, when you’re doing a play and you’re with your family – other actors, technicians – you do silly things and it becomes kind of superstitious if you don’t do it every night you think it’s going to jinx the show. I’m not saying I’ve done similar things to what [Hoffman] apparently did but it’s childhood stuff.
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- خرافيArabic
- supersticiósCatalan, Valencian
- pověrčivýCzech
- abergläubischGerman
- προληπτικόςGreek
- supersticiosoSpanish
- taikauskoinenFinnish
- superstitieuse, superstitieuxFrench
- piseogachIrish
- saobh-chràbhachScottish Gaelic
- वहमीHindi
- babonásHungarian
- superstiziosoItalian
- 迷信Japanese
- ຈົນ chonLao
- bijgelovigDutch
- przesądnyPolish
- supersticiosoPortuguese
- суеверныйRussian
- prȁznovjēran, sȕjevjēranSerbo-Croatian
- praznoverenSlovene
- besëtytëAlbanian
- เชื่อโชคลาง cheụ̄̀x chokhlāngThai
- batıl inançları olanTurkish
- забобоннийUkrainian
- lukredikVolapük
- גלייבעכץYiddish
- 迷信的Chinese
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