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Preternatural Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -al

Preternatural has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

surpassing the ordinary or normal

"Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel"

"his uncanny sense of direction"

2

existing outside of or not in accordance with nature

"find transcendental motives for sublunary action"

3

Beyond or not conforming to what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange.

Example Sentences
"Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel" adjective
"his uncanny sense of direction" adjective
"find transcendental motives for sublunary action" adjective
Related Terms
Rhyming Words
ral tral ural oral gral aral kral aural jural loral acral moral dural meral sural boral rural coral feral viral
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