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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

preternatural
    adj 1: surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his
           preternatural affability there is some acid and some
           steel" - George Will; "his uncanny sense of direction"
           [syn: preternatural, uncanny]
    2: existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; "find
       transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley
       [syn: nonnatural, otherworldly, preternatural,
       transcendental]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Preternatural \Pre`ter*nat"u*ral\ (?; 135), a. [Pref. preter +
   natural.]
   Beyond of different from what is natural, or according to the
   regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or
   miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon;
   irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a
   preternatural stillness; a preternatural presentation (in
   childbirth) or labor.
   [1913 Webster]

         This vile and preternatural temper of mind. --South.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: See Supernatural.
        [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Preternatural:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

aberrant, anomalous, arcane, atypical, deviant, deviative, eerie, esoteric, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fey, heteroclite, hypernormal, hyperphysical, miraculous, mysterious, nonnatural, numinous, occult, otherworldly, preterhuman, preternormal, pretersensual, psychic, spiritual, superhuman, superior, supermundane, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical, supersensible, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly, unhuman, unnatural, unrepresentative, untypical, unworldly

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