preternatural

/pree-ter-nach-er-uhl, -nach-ruhl/US // ˌpri tərˈnætʃ ər əl, -ˈnætʃ rəl //UK // (ˌpriːtəˈnætʃrəl) //

超自然的,超自然,特异功能,特异功能的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
- : outside of nature; supernatural.

adj.unusual, abnormal

Synonyms

Both runners have repeatedly displayed a preternatural ability to close on this course, saving a final burst of energy so that they can be a half-yard ahead of their competition just as they cross the line.
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.

/pree-ter-nach-er-uhl, -nach-ruhl/US // ˌpri tərˈnætʃ ər əl, -ˈnætʃ rəl //UK // (ˌpriːtəˈnætʃrəl) //

超自然的,超自然,特异功能,特异功能的

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
- : outside of nature; supernatural.

adj.unusual, abnormal

Synonyms

Both runners have repeatedly displayed a preternatural ability to close on this course, saving a final burst of energy so that they can be a half-yard ahead of their competition just as they cross the line.
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.