subterˈnatural, a.
[subter- (3).]
Below what is natural, less than natural.
| 1870 Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 87 We must be content to call hypochondria subternatural, because the tone of the instrument is lowered. 1880 Gladstone in W. O'Brien Recoll. (1905) 262 The expression of subter⁓natural glee which sits upon the visage of the hon. member for Cavan. 1890 Q. Rev. Apr. 296 Shakspere's preternatural or subternatural creations. |