superstitious
not rational (person)
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
SUPERSTITIOUS town bans whistling
(BBC - News Headline)
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Very SUPERSTITIOUS, writing's on the wall.
Very superstitious, ladder's 'bout to fall.
Thirteen-month-old baby, broke the lookin' glass.
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.
- from the song Superstitious, by Stevie Wonder
(BBC - News Headline)
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Very SUPERSTITIOUS, writing's on the wall.
Very superstitious, ladder's 'bout to fall.
Thirteen-month-old baby, broke the lookin' glass.
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.
- from the song Superstitious, by Stevie Wonder
Did you
know?
superstitious
adjective
- based on or believing in superstitions (beliefs that are not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, but are connected with old ideas about magic, etc)
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The Unlucky Ninth
Beethoven's extremely difficult, ground-breaking Ninth Symphony was his first in more than a decade. It was also his last. Incredibly, Schubert, Dvorak, and Vaughan Williams (among others) also died after composing a ninth symphony.
Music experts like to joke about the so-called ninth symphony syndrome.
Mahler, superstitious about his ninth, promptly attempted to complete a tenth - and suddenly died.
Bruckner, despite numbering his first two symphonies 00 and 0, also died while composing his ninth.
Sibelius wisely stopped after his eighth - and went on to live another 33 years.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Although I'm not superstitious, I try to avoid walking under ladders."
adjective
- based on or believing in superstitions (beliefs that are not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, but are connected with old ideas about magic, etc)
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The Unlucky Ninth
Beethoven's extremely difficult, ground-breaking Ninth Symphony was his first in more than a decade. It was also his last. Incredibly, Schubert, Dvorak, and Vaughan Williams (among others) also died after composing a ninth symphony.
Music experts like to joke about the so-called ninth symphony syndrome.
Mahler, superstitious about his ninth, promptly attempted to complete a tenth - and suddenly died.
Bruckner, despite numbering his first two symphonies 00 and 0, also died while composing his ninth.
Sibelius wisely stopped after his eighth - and went on to live another 33 years.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Although I'm not superstitious, I try to avoid walking under ladders."
