Usually means: Exceeding what is normal, supernatural.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word preternatural:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. preternatural: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. preternatural: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preternatural: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preternatural: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preternatural: Vocabulary.com
  6. Preternatural, preternatural: Wordnik
  7. preternatural: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. preternatural: Wiktionary
  9. preternatural: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. preternatural: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. preternatural: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Preternatural, preternatural: Dictionary.com
  13. preternatural: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Preternatural: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Preternatural: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. preternatural: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. preternatural: Rhymezone
  18. Preternatural: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. preternatural: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. preternatural: Free Dictionary
  21. preternatural: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. preternatural: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. preternatural: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preternatural: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preternatural: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preternatural: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Beyond or not conforming to what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange.
adjective:  (dated) Having an existence outside of the natural world.

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