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preternatural a. 超自然的,異常的,奇異的 超自然的,異常的,奇異的 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" [ synonym: { preternatural}, { uncanny}] 2: existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; " find transcendental motives for sublunary action"- Aldous Huxley [ synonym: { nonnatural}, { otherworldly}, { preternatural}, { transcendental}] 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] 43 Moby Thesaurus words for " preternatural": 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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