Adjective
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surpassing the ordinary or normal
"Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will
"his uncanny sense of direction"
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suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
"an eldritch screech"
"the three weird sisters"
"stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy
"an unearthly light"
"he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley