preternatural
- out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
- outside of nature; supernatural.
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aberrant, anomalous, atypical, deviant, extraordinary, ghostly, inexplicable, irregular, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, odd, peculiar, strange, superhuman, superior, supernatural, unaccountable, unearthly, unnaturalExamples from the Web for preternatural
Contemporary Examples of preternatural
He presided over the preternatural creation of 30 million new jobs—and the sharpest rise in median incomes in a generation.
There is an automatism to him, a preternatural talent for responding exactly, and briskly, with what is expected.
Schwarzenegger is adept at disguising his true feelings beneath a mask of preternatural calm, but he was suddenly doubly alert.
Historical Examples of preternatural
In this undertaking he manifests a preternatural astuteness.
Camps, Quarters and Casual PlacesArchibald Forbes
Even my preternatural eagerness could not discern who they were!
The First ViolinJessie Fothergill
He was speaking in a deadened voice which had yet a preternatural distinctness.
The Arrow of GoldJoseph Conrad
And so Ormiston felt, as he stood eyeing it with preternatural gravity.
The Midnight QueenMay Agnes Fleming
Daddy hunted about with a look of preternatural sagacity about him.
Danger! and Other StoriesArthur Conan Doyle
preternatural
- beyond what is ordinarily found in nature; abnormal
- another word for supernatural