Definition of unnatural Unnatural

/ʌnNæˈʧɚʌl/ - [unNatcherul] - un•nat•u•ral

We found 9 definitions of unnatural from 5 different sources.

What does unnatural mean?

WordNet

Adjective
unnatural - not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural interest in death"
		natural being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent"
		affected acted upon; influenced
		paranormal not in accordance with scientific laws; "what seemed to be paranormal manifestations"
		supernatural not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings"
		naturalness the likeness of a representation to the thing represented; "engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music"
unnatural - not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food"
		abnormal
		normal conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"
		insane afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter"
		normalcy, normality conformity with the norm
		aberrant, deviant, deviate markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"
		anomalous deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"
		antidromic conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal
		atypical, irregular deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal; "these days large families are atypical"; "atypical clinical findings"; "atypical pneumonia"; "highly irregular behavior"
		brachydactylic, brachydactylous having abnormally short finger or toes
		defective markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior; "defective speech"
		freakish characteristic of a freak; "a freakish extra toe"
		kinky, perverted (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes; "kinky sex"; "perverted practices"
		subnormal below normal or average; "after the floods the harvests were subnormal"; "subnormal intelligence"
		supernormal exceeding the normal or average; "years of supernormal employment during the war"; "a phase of supernormal excitability"
unnatural - speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
		affected
		unaffected undergoing no change when acted upon; "entirely unaffected by each other's writings"; "fibers remained apparently unaffected by the treatment"
		studied produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation; "a studied smile"; "a note of biting irony and studied insult"- V.L.Parrington
		affectedness the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others)
		agonistic, strained struggling for effect; "agonistic poses"
		stilted, contrived, hokey, artificial showing effects of planning or manipulation; "a novel with a contrived ending"
		constrained, forced, strained lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile"
		elocutionary (used of style of speaking) overly embellished; "an elocutionary Oxonian delivery"
		mannered having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"

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Wiktionary

unnatural (Adjective)
Not natural; supernatural or artificial.
unnatural (Adjective)
Not occuring in the environment or atmosphere.
unnatural (Adjective)
Going against nature; perverse.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

unnatural (a.)
Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

unnatural
Of strange or extraordinary character.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

unnatural
un-nat′ū-ral, adj. not natural or according to nature: without natural affection.—v.t. Unnat′uralise.—adj. Unnat′uralised, not naturalised.—ns. Unnat′uralism, Unnatural′ity.—adv. Unnat′urally.—n. Unnat′uralness