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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNNAT'URAL, a.
1. Contrary to the laws of nature; contrary to the natural feelings.
2. Acting without the affections of our common nature; as an unnatural father or son.
3. Not in conformity to nature; not agreeable to the real state of persons or things not representing nature; as affected and unnatural thoughts; unnatural images or descriptions.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural interest in death" [ant: natural]
2: 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" [syn: abnormal, unnatural] [ant: normal]
3: speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression [syn: affected, unnatural] [ant: unaffected]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. not being in accordance with nature or consistent with a normal course of events 2. a. not being in accordance with normal human feelings or behavior ; perverse b. lacking ease and naturalness ; contrived <her manner was forced and unnatural> c. inconsistent with what is reasonable or expected <an unnatural alliance> Synonyms: see irregular • unnaturally adverb • unnaturalness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 contrary to nature or the usual course of nature; not normal. 2 a lacking natural feelings. b extremely cruel or wicked. 3 artificial. 4 affected. Derivatives: unnaturally adv. unnaturalness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unnatural Un*nat"u*ral (?; 135), a. Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes. Syn: See Factitious. -- Un*nat"u*ral*ly, adv. -- Un*nat"u*ral*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe something as unnatural, you mean that it is strange and often frightening, because it is different from what you normally expect. The aircraft rose with unnatural speed on take-off... The altered landscape looks unnatural and weird. ADJ • unnaturally The house was unnaturally silent. ...unnaturally cold conditions. ADV: ADV adj 2. Behaviour that is unnatural seems artificial and not normal or genuine. She gave him a bright, determined smile which seemed unnatural. = false ADJ: usu v-link ADJ • unnaturally Try to avoid shouting or speaking unnaturally. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Unusual, uncommon, anomalous, irregular, abnormal, aberrant, monstrous, preternatural, prodigious. 2. Heartless, brutal, stony-hearted, inhuman, unfeeling. 3. Forced, strained, stilted, affected, constrained, artificial. 4. Factitious, artificial.

Moby Thesaurus

Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, aberrant, abnormal, affected, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bent, bestial, bizarre, bogus, brummagem, callous, calloused, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, colorable, colored, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, deviant, deviative, different, distorted, divergent, dotty, dressed up, dummy, eccentric, elaborate, elaborated, embellished, embroidered, erratic, ersatz, euphuistic, exceptional, extraordinary, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, feigned, fey, fictitious, fictive, flaky, flinthearted, forced, formless, freakish, funny, garbled, grotesque, hard, hard of heart, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, heteroclite, heteromorphic, histrionic, hyperelegant, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, illegitimate, imitation, improper, insensitive, insincere, irregular, junky, kinky, kooky, la-di-da, labored, maggoty, make-believe, man-made, maniere, mannered, mock, monstrous, nutty, obdurate, odd, oddball, out of character, outlandish, overacted, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overnice, overrefined, peculiar, perverse, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, precieuse, precieux, precious, pretended, pretentious, preternatural, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, quirky, restrained, screwball, screwy, self-conscious, self-styled, sham, shapeless, shoddy, simulated, singular, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, stagy, stiff, stilted, stonyhearted, strange, stray, straying, studied, subnormal, supernatural, supposititious, synthetic, theatrical, tin, tinsel, titivated, tribadistic, twisted, unaccountable, unauthentic, uncanny, uncharacteristic, unconventional, unexpected, unfeeling, ungenuine, unmerciful, unreal, unresponsive, unseemly, unusual, wacky, wandering, warped, weird, whimsical