Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an unnatural manner; in opposition to natural feelings and sentiments.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an unnatural manner
WordNet 3.0
- adv. not according to nature; not by natural means
- adv. in a manner at variance with what is natural or normal
- adv. in an unnatural way
Examples
“The sandwich (by itself an obscenity), slathered in unnaturally ultra-white mayonnaise, is floating in the air directly across from the disturbingly pale profile of a young, gape-mouthed woman who looks frightened to death of the manly meat.”
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“When she looked at him fully, his expression seemed unnaturally somber.”
“And I think what happens is that orphanage kids and I think, by the way, they develop great strengths, too - but I think that they begin to feel a little bit, you know, they lose a little bit of that lose a little bit of their childhood that way in that they feel kind of unnaturally responsible for their own survival at a very early age.”
“Saber-rattling Western trade negotiators frequently focus their attention on the "unnaturally" depressed exchange rates of countries such as China, and this is a component of the structural advantage to which I refer.”
“The state Department of Game and Inland Fisheries says the ban is intended to curb the negative consequences of feeding deer, such as unnaturally increasing population numbers.”
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“But realize that you're adding it to make food taste "unnaturally" good.”
“As would presuming its inventor would be so inept as to require special levers and hidden cranks to "unnaturally" make the invention work.”
“So economics does play a role, but there are other factors as well, that are skewing things "unnaturally".”
“Using the church's own logic you have to conclude that people are being kept alive "unnaturally" by technology because it denies them the right to a "natural" death.”
“The bumptious king adores Becket - perhaps "unnaturally" so, according to his scolding mother - and trusts him without reservation.”
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mollusque I rang a bell and a large soft man oozed out from behind a wall and smiled at me with moist soft lips and bluish-white teeth and unnaturally bright eyes.
--Raymond Chandler, 1949, The Little Sister, chapter 34 Sep 5, 2009