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Dragon;
• (eerie)- uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird, ( ;
); Strange and eerie was the path between wet trees, when we had
left the town behind. — Explorers of the Dawn;
• (preternatural)- out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or
abnormal, ( ; ; ); The name certainly
was not an attractive one, though the family had contrived to dignify it some
degree by assigning to it a preternatural origin. — Nero Makers of History
Series;
• (exotic)- of foreign origin or character; not native; introduced from abroad,
but not fully naturalized or acclimatized, ( ; ); She had never
yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more at her ease in
the presence of anything strange. — The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II);
supernatural, wizardry, celestial, quixotic
incorporeal = insubstantial ~ discarnate ~ metaphysical^ nonphysical : platonic
: spiritual = spectral : surreal : supernatural
• (incorporeal)- not corporeal or material; insubstantial, ( , );
We have shown that the soul is indivisible, incorporeal, unextended, and it is
consequently incorruptible. — A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human
Knowledge;
• (insubstantial)- not substantial or real; lacking substance, ( , ,
, , ); The room seemed to have become insubstantial, a
mirage, those few items of furniture airy and ghostly, her fist empty, closed
on nothing;
• (discarnate)- without a physical body; incorporeal; And yet such changes as
this probably only faintly indicate the adjustments which the discarnate are
called upon to meet. — Modern Religious Cults and Movements;
• (metaphysical)- concerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence,
causality, or truth, ( , );
Story-telling and long-winded discussions give him keen enjoyment, for he is
garrulous, metaphysical, and argumentative. — The Forged Coupon;
• concerned with first principles and ultimate grounds, as being, time, or
substance;