preternatural

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pre‧ter‧nat‧u‧ral/ˌpriːtəˈnætʃərəl◂ $ -tər-/ adjective formal
[date : 1500-1600; Language : Medieval Latin; Origin : praeternaturalis, from Latin praeter naturam 'beyond nature']
1. beyond what is usual or normal:
　 ▪ He felt possessed of a preternatural strength and fearlessness.

2. strange, mysterious, and unnatural:
　 ▪ the preternatural green light

—preternaturally adverb:
　 ▪ The town was preternaturally quiet.

adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a preternatural spirit
▪ The story emphasizes the heroine's preternatural beauty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As she sat there, she experienced a sense of what seemed to be preternatural power.
▪ Autumn was here, on the heels of a mutilated summer, and it had arrived with preternatural speed.
▪ But I was one now, fused for a preternatural purpose.
▪ It loomed over him chuckling with preternatural malice.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental, uncanny