Dictionary Definition
unnatural adj
1 not in accordance with or determined by nature;
contrary to nature; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural
interest in death" [ant: natural]
2 speaking or behaving in an artificial way to
make an impression [syn: affected] [ant: unaffected]
3 distorted and unnatural in shape or size;
abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms
long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes" [syn:
grotesque, monstrous]
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English
Adjective
- Not natural; supernatural or artificial.
Antonyms
Translations
- Finnish: luonnoton
- German: unnatürlich
Extensive Definition
Unnatural may refer to:
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, aberrant, abnormal, affected, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bent, bestial, bizarre, bogus, brummagem, callous, calloused, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, colorable, colored, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, deviant, deviative, different, distorted, divergent, dotty, dressed up, dummy, eccentric, elaborate, elaborated, embellished, embroidered, erratic, ersatz, euphuistic, exceptional, extraordinary, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, feigned, fey, fictitious, fictive, flaky, flinthearted, forced, formless, freakish, funny, garbled, grotesque, hard, hard of heart, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, heteroclite, heteromorphic, histrionic, hyperelegant, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, illegitimate, imitation, improper, insensitive, insincere, irregular, junky, kinky, kooky, la-di-da, labored, maggoty, make-believe, man-made,
maniere, mannered, mock, monstrous, nutty, obdurate, odd, oddball, out of character,
outlandish, overacted, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overnice, overrefined, peculiar, perverse, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, precieuse, precieux, precious, pretended, pretentious, preternatural, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, quirky, restrained, screwball, screwy, self-conscious,
self-styled, sham, shapeless, shoddy, simulated, singular, so-called,
soi-disant, spurious,
stagy, stiff, stilted, stonyhearted, strange, stray, straying, studied, subnormal, supernatural, supposititious, synthetic, theatrical, tin, tinsel, titivated, tribadistic, twisted, unaccountable, unauthentic, uncanny, uncharacteristic,
unconventional,
unexpected, unfeeling, ungenuine, unmerciful, unreal, unresponsive, unseemly, unusual, wacky, wandering, warped, weird, whimsical