[ UK /ʌnnˈæt‍ʃəɹə‍l/ ]
[ US /ənˈnætʃɝəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm
    abnormal circumstances
    abnormal powers of concentration
    an abnormal interest in food
    abnormal amounts of rain
  2. speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
  3. not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature
    an unnatural death
    the child's unnatural interest in death
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How To Use unnatural In A Sentence

  • There were dozens of glow-in-the-dark stars throbbing there, throwing their unnatural green light down to her.
  • The dramatic spirit of the Italian race seems to communicate itself to the puppets, and they perform their parts with a fidelity to theatrical unnaturalness which is wonderful. Venetian Life
  • The product is sweetened with organic crystallized cane sugar and contains no unnatural stabilizers or preservatives.
  • I wanted to tell the lady in Cairo that she was exaggerating her dress, that it was unnatural and abnormal.
  • The rancho he could not see -- for the covering interposal columns of the cacti -- but through the openings along their tops a black line was visible that had an unnatural look, and a strange film of smoke hung over the azotea! The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico
  • I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes ‘seem so unnatural’ (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and ‘an indiscriminate attack on civilians’. As I Please
  • Against any tendency to naturalize evil, Julian sees evil as profoundly unnatural, unkind.
  • Because he's been chronically underweight since before hitting puberty, his body is used to having to survive on unnaturally low weights, but there's a limit to how much it can take.
  • What is it about this particular ceremony that obligates people to travel vast distances, buy expensive casserole dishes, wear unnaturally tidy clothes, and take stupid numbers of photographs?
  • Are photography and surrealism such an ‘unnatural coupling,’ as one observer has recently suggested?
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