Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
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.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not natural; supernatural or artificial.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits.
WordNet 3.0
- 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
Examples
“_You_ are, Monica; your own unnatural prejudice -- _unnatural_ prejudice, blinds you.”
“They spoke and chanted in Yiddish and Hebrew, stressing the community's resilience and unity after what one called an unnatural death.”
“The good lady could not account for what she called his unnatural departure.”
Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
“Never once; and that's what I call unnatural behavior, after you saving her life; and if she wasn't --”
“They spoke and chanted in Yiddish, stressing the community's resilience and unity after what one called an unnatural death.”
“They stressed the community's resilience and unity after what one called an unnatural death.”
“Pictures taken by trail cams are often poor quality and the deer are in unnatural poses.”
DOes anybody think that there should be a section of trial camera photos in the magazine?
“Food, natural or unnatural, is the key to finding deer in large "predictable" numbers.”
“Something unnatural is happening in theMassachusetts prison, a literal fortress in the coastal wilderness.”
“Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy.”
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