She was preternaturally beautiful. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : preternatural powers. From Dictionary.com.
Mr Zuckerberg is best known as the preternaturally smart but socially awkward Harvard dropout from the film. From Wordnik.com. [FT.com / Technology - Why $50bn may not be much between friends] Reference
The man seemed to have preternaturally sharp ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
The preternaturally calm Boies strutted into the room. From Wordnik.com. [Settling Old Scores In The Swamp] Reference
This year, though, the markets are preternaturally quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Return Of A Killer] Reference
In fact, I am preternaturally suspect of all things radical. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse] Reference
He halted abruptly, became preternaturally grave, and presented arms. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
From being vague and blurred his senses now became preternaturally acute. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
His grin wrinkled up his preternaturally old face in a most remarkable way. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
How preternaturally still every thing seemed -- what an intensity of silence!. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
I have said that every disease is preternaturally either positive or negative. From Wordnik.com. [A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication] Reference
Thus the tales of saints with preternaturally loud voices are not quite in point. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
"I have no fear of fighting or dying," says a preternaturally cool 21-year-old named Rosmiati. From Wordnik.com. [The Fruits Of War] Reference
The best thing to say about the preternaturally optimistic McAuliffe is he can't help himself. From Wordnik.com. [Crawling Through the Wreckage] Reference
Once hunger sets in, the donkey migration should head southeast to preternaturally trendy Soho. From Wordnik.com. [Peri Picks: A Convention After Hours Guide] Reference
Thus the milk is preternaturally accumulated, and the udder and nipples become greatly distended. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
All the time her ear seemed preternaturally attuned to that rising and waning sound without her chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
"I," came the preternaturally deep voice as Louise quaked at the make-belief reality of the scene, "am the devil!". From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
The freckled-faced boy put on a preternaturally solemn expression and begged the pleasure of the first dance with Mary. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
The pulse was preternaturally slow -- great stupor -- dilatation of the pupils, and diastasis of the bones of the head. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks on the Subject of Lactation] Reference
I have always possessed a preternaturally quick ear; but I confess I might have used it to better purpose on that occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
His sister interrupted him with a burst of laughter in which his preternaturally acute senses detected the wildness of mania. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Her Senate office is across the hall from that of Evan Bayh, the preternaturally cautious former two-term governor of Indiana. From Wordnik.com. [How No. 1s Pick No. 2s] Reference
He was a preternaturally solemn man and when I felt that I could command my features, I used to like to talk with him about his. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
The physician must be a consummate actor who can deceive a patient whose perceptions are preternaturally acute as were Feodora's. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
We have been driven to culling this memorable sentence from the latest and most preternaturally precious of his American admirers. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21] Reference
Marketers have seized on these preternaturally frantic kids because it's an opportunity to lock in highly impressionable consumers. From Wordnik.com. [The Truth About Tweens] Reference
Then the curtain parts and a preternaturally boyish sexagenarian strolls downstage to a small gray star implanted in black linoleum. From Wordnik.com. [Stranger In The Night] Reference
Serge's relationship to Sophie is preternaturally close, with incestuous overtones, and her death severs his only real human connection. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review Roundup: Tom McCarthy, James Baldwin, Stephen Breyer] Reference
This time the interruption comes from the Judge who I thought was going mad, but who now seems to be preternaturally and offensively sane. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891] Reference
After you left the house this morning, I sat outside at my cafe, because the day felt preternaturally warm, the harbinger of spring, right?. From Wordnik.com. [I see other women] Reference
We conceive, therefore, that somnambulists who may be considered in a state of preternaturally profound sleep, ought not to be forcibly awakened. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
He looked as though he thought me a mind-reader, but I fancy the knack of divining when people need a confidant is preternaturally developed in old maids. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
In 1692, two girls, the daughter and niece of Mr. Parvis, minister, suffering from a disease similar to that of the Goodwins, were pronounced to be preternaturally afflicted. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
Here we may recur to the question with which we set out; -- whether persons in somnambulism are partially awake, or in a state of unusually and preternaturally profound sleep?. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
My sense of hearing, too, seemed preternaturally sharpened; I could hear the ticking of the watch in my pocket, the throbbing of my own heart, the murmur of the air in my lungs. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
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