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Adjective: preternatural  `pree-tu(r)'na-chu-rul
  1. Surpassing the ordinary or normal
    "Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel"
    - uncanny
     
  2. Existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
    "find preternatural motives for sublunary action"
    - nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental

See also: extraordinary, preternaturally, supernatural

Encyclopedia: Preternatural

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