Dictionary Entry
preternatural
preternatural is a 13-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
13 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 3 senses
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- 1adjective
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.
- 2adjective
existing outside of or not in accordance with nature-Aldous Huxley
"find transcendental motives for sublunary action"
- 3adjective
surpassing the ordinary or normal - George Will
"Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel"
"his uncanny sense of direction"
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