Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Opposed to nature.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Opposed to or against nature; unnatural.

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  • adjective Opposed to or against nature; unnatural.

Etymologies

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contra- +‎ natural. Compare counternatural.

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Examples

  • But I soon felt, that human nature itself fought up against this wilful resignation of intellect; and as soon did I find, that the scheme, taken with all its consequences and cleared of all inconsistencies, was not less impracticable than contranatural.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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