adj
Meaning 1
Not natural.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unnatural
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ʌnˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹəl/
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CMU ARPABET: AH0 N N AE1 CH ER0 AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Not occurring in nature, the environment or atmosphere
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Going against nature; perverse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
One who is unnatural, against nature, perverse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: affected
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 6
not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an unnatural death
- the child's unnatural interest in death
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: natural
adjective
Meaning 7
not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- abnormal powers of concentration
- abnormal amounts of rain
- abnormal circumstances
- an abnormal interest in food
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: abnormal
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English unnatural, unnaturel, equivalent to un- + natural.
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: antinatural — not natural
- Czech: nepřirozený — not natural
- Danish: unaturlig — not natural
- Dutch: onnatuurlijk — not natural
- Dutch: tegennatuurlijk — not natural
- Esperanto: nenatura — not natural
- Esperanto: kontraŭnatura — not natural
- Finnish: luonnoton — not natural
- French: peu naturel — not natural
- French: contre nature — not natural
- Galician: antinatural — not natural
- Galician: contranatural — not natural
- Georgian: ხელოვნური (xelovnuri) — not natural
- Georgian: არაბუნებრივი (arabunebrivi) — not natural
- German: unnatürlich — not natural
- German: widernatürlich — not natural
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌺𐌿𐌽𐍃 (aljakuns) — not natural
- Greek: αφύσικος (afýsikos) — not natural
- Hungarian: természetellenes — not natural
- Ido: nenaturala — not natural
- Italian: contro natura — not natural
- Italian: innaturale — not natural
- Macedonian: неприроден (nepriroden) — not natural
- Middle English: unkynde — not natural
- Middle English: unkyndely — not natural
- Norwegian Bokmål: unaturlig — not natural
- Norwegian Nynorsk: unaturleg — not natural
- Polish: nienaturalny — not natural
- Portuguese: antinatural — not natural
- Portuguese: contranatural — not natural
- Portuguese: contranatura — not natural
- Romanian: artificial — not natural
- Romanian: nenatural — not natural
- Russian: неесте́ственный (nejestéstvennyj) — not natural
- Russian: противоесте́ственный (protivojestéstvennyj) — not natural
- Scottish Gaelic: mì-nàdarrach — not natural
- Serbo-Croatian: neprírodan — not natural
- Spanish: poco/nada natural — not natural
- Swedish: onaturlig — not natural
- Tagalog: dilikas — not natural
- Yiddish: איבער דער טבֿע (iber der teyve) — not natural
- Yiddish: אומנאַטירלעך (umnatirlekh) — not natural
- Esperanto: kontraŭnatura — going against nature; perverse
- Middle English: unkynde — going against nature; perverse
- Middle English: unkyndely — going against nature; perverse
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