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adjective
- 1. beyond what is normal or natural: "autumn had arrived with preternatural speed"
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The meaning of PRETERNATURAL is existing outside of nature. How to use preternatural in a sentence. Did you know?
PRETERNATURAL definition: 1. more than is usual or natural: 2. more than is usual or natural: . Learn more.
Preternatural describes something that seems oddly abnormal and out of sync with everything else. If you hear a preternatural dog's barking, maybe it sounds like a police siren instead of a howl.
Preternatural definition: out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal. See examples of PRETERNATURAL used in a sentence.
Definition of preternatural adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
In his fiction, he has a gorgeous, almost preternatural empathy for the humiliated, the shamed, and the downtrodden. While both act admirably, only one has, by definition, a superhuman, preternatural aura. Both of them burned with a sense of natural justice and a preternatural certainty about what had to be done.
With the emergence of early modern science, the concept of the preternatural increasingly came to be used to refer to strange or abnormal phenomena that seemed to violate the normal working of nature, but which were not associated with magic and witchcraft. This was a development of the idea that preternatural phenomena were fake miracles.
