preternatural• The story emphasizes the heroine's preternaturalbeauty.• It loomed over him chuckling with preternaturalmalice.• As she sat there, she experienced a sense of what seemed to be preternatural power.• But I was one now, fused for a preternatural purpose.• Autumn was here, on the heels of a mutilatedsummer, and it had arrived with preternaturalspeed.• a preternaturalspirit
Originpreternatural
(1500-1600)Medieval Latinpraeternaturalis, from Latinpraeter naturam“beyond nature”