Another word for preternatural
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Adjective
Departing from the normal
- Not in accordance with what usually occurs in nature:
- Not included in nature; artificial:
- Deviating from a behavioral or social norm:
- Contrary to rule, accepted order, or general practice:
- Not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention:
- Not straight, uniform, or symmetrical:
- Drawing apart from a common point; diverging.
- Departing from convention.
- Differing from another:
- Differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society.
- One that differs from a norm, especially a person whose behavior and attitudes differ from accepted social standards.
- Not conforming to type; unusual or irregular.
- that has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type
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- Deviating from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
- Equivocal, as in classification or nature.
- tending to be anomalous
- of an anomaly
- Not typical, usual, or regular; not normal; deviant.
- Deviating from what is considered proper or normal:
- Deviating from what is typical for a specified thing:
- One that is aberrant.
Greatly exceeding or departing from the normal course of nature
- Not in accordance with what usually occurs in nature:
- Not included in nature; artificial:
- Deviating from a behavioral or social norm:
- Of or relating to existence outside the natural world.
- Attributed to a power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces.
- Of or relating to a deity.
See also:Of, coming from, or relating to forces or beings that exist outside the natural world
- Not of this earth; preternatural; supernatural.
- Unnaturally strange and frightening.
- Ridiculously unreasonable or uncustomary; absurd:
- Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge as independent of experience.
- Asserting a fundamental irrationality or supernatural element in experience.
- Surpassing all others; superior.
- Beyond or above perception by the senses.
- Exceeding or going beyond the purely physical.
- Not explained by known physical laws; preternatural or supernatural.
- Of or relating to existence outside the natural world.
- Attributed to a power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces.
- Of or relating to a deity.
- Above or beyond the human; preternatural or supernatural.
- Beyond ordinary or normal human ability, power, or experience:
- Of the nature of a miracle; preternatural.
- So astounding as to suggest a miracle; phenomenal:
- Able to work miracles.
- Of or relating to metaphysics.
- Based on speculative or abstract reasoning.
- Immaterial or supernatural:
- Being outside the normal range or bounds of the senses.
- Occurring or existing outside of the physical world or universe.
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Another word for preternatural
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- Not in accordance with what usually occurs in nature:
- Not included in nature; artificial:
- Deviating from a behavioral or social norm:
- Contrary to rule, accepted order, or general practice:
- Not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention:
- Not straight, uniform, or symmetrical:
- Of, relating to, or resembling a ghost, a wraith, or an apparition; spectral.
- Of or relating to the soul or spirit; spiritual.
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