numinous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: nu=mi=nous

CIDE DICTIONARY

numinous, adj. 

•  Evincing the presence of a deity; as, a numinous wood; the most numinous moment in the Mass.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  same as supernatural.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

numinous, adj.
1 indicating the presence of a divinity.
2 spiritual.
3 awe-inspiring.

Etymology

L numen: see NUMEN

THESAURUS

numinous

Greek to one, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, ambiguous, arcane, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, beyond understanding, bizarre, boundless, bright, brilliant, cabalistic, cantrip, changeless, charismatic, creating, creative, divine, eerie, esoteric, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fey, glamorous, glorious, good, hallowed, heavenly, highest, holy, hoodoo, hypernormal, hyperphysical, illustrious, immortal, immutable, impenetrable, inarticulate, incantational, incantatory, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, infinite, inscrutable, inviolable, inviolate, just, limitless, loving, luminous, lustrous, magian, magic, majestic, making, merciful, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, necromantic, occult, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, otherworldly, past comprehension, permanent, perpetual, preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, psychic, radiant, rambling, religious, resplendent, sacred, sacrosanct, shaman, shamanic, shamanist, shamanistic, shaping, shining, sorcerous, sovereign, spiritual, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, superhuman, superior, supermundane, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical, supersensible, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, supreme, talismanic, thaumaturgic, timeless, transcendental, transmundane, ubiquitous, unaccountable, unbounded, uncanny, unchanging, unconnected, undefined, unearthly, unfathomable, unguessed, unhuman, unintelligible, unknowable, unlimited, unsearchable, unspeakable, untouchable, unutterable, unworldly, venerable, voodoo, voodooistic, weird, witch, witchlike, witchy, wizardlike, wizardly