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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. surpassing the ordinary or normal;
- Example: "Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will;
- Example: "his uncanny sense of direction"
[syn: preternatural, uncanny]

2. existing outside of or not in accordance with nature;
- Example: "find transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley
[syn: nonnatural, otherworldly, preternatural, transcendental]



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.
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         This vile and preternatural temper of mind. --South.
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   Syn: See Supernatural.
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WordNet (r) 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]