Unnatural

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. In violation of a natural law.
  • adj. Inconsistent with an individual pattern or custom.
  • adj. Deviating from a behavioral or social norm: an unnatural attachment.
  • adj. Contrived or constrained; artificial: smiled in an unnatural manner.
  • adj. In violation of natural feelings; inhuman.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not natural; supernatural or artificial.
  • adj. Not occuring in the environment or atmosphere
  • adj. Going against nature; perverse.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not natural; contrary to nature; monstrous; especially, contrary to the natural feelings: as, unnatural offenses.
  • Acting without the affections of our common nature; not having the feelings natural to humanity; being without natural instincts: as, an unnatural parent.
  • Not in conformity to nature; not agreeable to the real character of persons or things; not representing nature; forced; strained; affected; artificial: as, unnatural images or descriptions.
  • =Syn. 1-3. Preternatural, etc. See supernatural.
  • Artificial, etc. See factitious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm
  • adj. speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
  • adj. not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature
  • Equivalent
    aberrant    supernormal    vicarious    atypical    deviant    kinky    defective    perverted    deviate    freakish   
    Antonym
    natural   
    Cross Reference
    monstrous    artificial    affected   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    natural    supernatural   
    Same Context
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    terrible    extraordinary    unpleasant    absurd    inhuman    artificial    intense    unnecessary