adjective
definition
Not natural.
definition
Not occurring in nature, the environment or atmosphere
definition
Going against nature; perverse.
Examples of unnatural in a Sentence
He did not finish, but gave a painfully unnatural smile.
I cannot be certain what the result might be if you tried to kill yourself or if you died of unnatural causes.
The world moved like it was in slow motion, giving him time to react with unnatural agility.
Her unnatural tone made him wince unpleasantly and he replied hastily.
A man with caramel skin, a woman openly armed with a gun, and a man Jule's size with unnatural golden eyes.
No doubt he didn't like being reminded that her dream could only be achieved by unnatural methods.
No part of it felt unnatural.
When I came, her movements were so insistent that one always felt there was something unnatural and almost weird about her.
Abominable, unnatural as Peter's conduct to his unhappy and innocent son undoubtedly was, there is no reason to suppose that he ever regretted it.
The forced and unnatural rendering of Ex.
The Gatekeeper is unnatural.
Maybe she should instruct or remind him, but the thought of it seemed so unnatural.
The tone of Rachael's letters is most unnatural.
A frog or fowl or guinea-pig held in some unnatural pose, and retained so forcibly for a time, becomes "set" in that pose, or rather in a posture of partial recovery of the normal posture.
At present few persons beyond their teens would care to read it through, so unnatural and stilted is its language, so thin its material and so consciously mediated its sentiment.
Media Lounge's almost unnatural energy levels make the interview fly by.
He used the Lombards in his struggle with the Greeks, leaving to his successors the duty of checking these unnatural allies.
Such examples might be multiplied unendingly, but enough has been said to show that the attitude of civilized man towards the sphinx-riddle of his end has been in part dictated and is even still influenced by the savage belief that to die is unnatural.
This is not unnatural, seeing that it is only so far as they bear on the one central question of the nature of existence that philosophy spreads its mantle over psychology, logic or ethics.
This unnatural rebellion on the part of one grandson, combined with the fact that it was supported by the other grandson, Cardinal Alessandro, hastened the pope's death, which occurred on the Toth of November 1549.
Of great practical importance is the fact that the cornutine causes rhythmic contractions such as naturally occur, whilst the sphacelinic acid produces a tonic contraction of the uterus, which is unnatural and highly inimical to the life of the foetus.
This rule is necessitated by the sphacelinic acid, which causes an unnatural state of the organ.
Hence the story of the unnatural war between father and sons has no part in English history.
It was a righteous punishment for her interference in the unnatural strife of Orleanists and Burgundians that the struggle between York and Lancaster was to be as bitter and as bloody as that between the two French factions.
There is no doubt that in this instance the unnatural quietude, the grave-like silence, and the dim religious light in which the victim was kept contributed to defer death.
No other stated fasts, besides those already mentioned, can be adduced from the time before Irenaeus; but there was also a tendency - not unnatural in itself, and already sanctioned by Jewish practice - to fast by way of preparation for any season of peculiar privilege.
If so, parliament was told that temporal possessions ruin the church and drive out the Christian graces of faith, hope and charity; that the priesthood of the church in communion with Rome was not the priesthood Christ gave to his apostles; that the monk's vow of celibacy had for its consequence unnatural lust, and should not be imposed; that transubstantiation was a feigned miracle, and led people to idolatry; that prayers made over wine, bread, water, oil, salt, wax, incense, altars of stone, church walls, vestments, mitres, crosses, staves, were magical and should not be allowed; that kings should possess the jus episcopale, and bring good government into the church; that no special prayers should be made for the dead; that auricular confession made to the clergy, and declared to be necessary for salvation, was the root of clerical arrogance and the cause of indulgences and other abuses in pardoning sin; that all wars were against the principles of the New Testament, and were but murdering and plundering the poor to win glory for kings; that the vows of chastity laid upon nuns led to child murder; that many of the trades practised in the commonwealth, such as those of goldsmiths and armourers, were unnecessary and led to luxury and waste.
The belief in their existence, however, having been once accepted and introduced into the national poetry and art, it became necessary to surround them as far as possible with the appearance of not unnatural beings.
On the other hand, the Artemis of Arcadia, who is confused with the nymph Callisto, who, again, is said to have become a she-bear, and later a star, and the Brauronian Artemis, whose maiden ministers danced a bear-dance, are goddesses whose legend seems unnatural, .and is felt to need explanation.
But the Zeus whose grave was shown in Crete, or the Zeus who played Demeter an obscene trick by the aid of a ram, or the Zeus who, in the shape of a swan, became the father of Castor and Pollux, or the Zeus who was merely a rough stone, or the Zeus who deceived Hera by means of a feigned marriage with an inanimate object, or the Zeus who was afraid of Attes, is a being whose myth is felt to be unnatural and in great need of explanation.
It is this irrational and unnatural element - .as Max Muller says, " the silly, savage and senseless element " - that makes mythology the puzzle which men have so long found it.
Boiled food of any kind is unnatural to a horse, and is risky to give, being liable to produce colic, especially if the animal bolts its food when hungry, although it generally produces a glossy coat.
Overhead hay-racks are unnatural and are liable to drop seeds into a horse's eye.
That he was an ambitious man, fond of power, and haughty in his attitude to those who differed from him in opinion, may be granted, but it must also be conceded that he sought for power in order to confer invaluable services upon his country, and that impatience of opposition was not unnatural in a man who had exercised an almost supreme control of administrative affairs for upwards of three decades.
They were using an unnatural method to circumvent God's decision - that they would not have a child of their own.
Do you believe this person is truly a psychic or possess unnatural abilities?
Unlike the Watchers' tell-tale green eyes, the Others had unnatural purple eyes.
Killing by forethought felony was unnatural, against the law of nature.
In Mexico City Behind a pane of glass Sits a feather headdress Of unnatural beauty.
This is an unnatural posture for designers, who work in intuitive and subjective ways.
Consequently, an unnatural, rather stilted way of speaking would be required that the users may tire of quickly.
I listened to the clacking of her heels on the floor, the unnatural rhythm jarring with the low thrum of the music.
The figures are very amorphous without facial features beside ears, and a somewhat unnatural skin tone.
The dry diet they are provided is totally unnatural to the species.
Girls and guys alike look rather out of place with their rather unnatural dark tan on faces and hands.
At first it might feel completely unnatural not to have a cigarette in your hand.
The standard of these displayed cars was unbelievable, quite unnatural in my mind.
If you find such visualizations unnatural or difficult, then your spiritual healing efforts can involve you deliberately holding neutral thoughts about crime.
The problem with the second solution is that at least Mosaic's handling of documents with labels seems unnatural to me.
But that way of acting would appear unnatural on the screen.