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UK
/ʌnnˈætʃəɹəl/
]
[ US /ənˈnætʃɝəɫ/ ]
[ US /ənˈnætʃɝəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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 - speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
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not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature
an unnatural death
the child's unnatural interest in death
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?