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He presided over the preternatural creation of 30 million new jobs—and the sharpest rise in median incomes in a generation.

There is an automatism to him, a preternatural talent for responding exactly, and briskly, with what is expected.

Schwarzenegger is adept at disguising his true feelings beneath a mask of preternatural calm, but he was suddenly doubly alert.

He said he had heard about my wonderful “flying-spears,” and declined to fight me if I used such preternatural weapons.

Such were the truths which Mohammed, with preternatural earnestness, now declared,--doctrines which would revolutionize Arabia.

A preternatural dread of water rages among all the inhabitants of Rome, from the untitled down to the titled.

The vengeance of Baldassare is almost preternatural; it surpasses the wrath of Achilles and the malignity of Shylock.

By a preternatural light in the chamber he observed distinctly everything around him.

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On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to preternatural, such as: aberrant, anomalous, atypical, deviant, deviative, and extraordinary.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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