preternatural

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}]
    

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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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