unnatural

DEFINITIONS OF: unnatural

“an unnatural death”

“the child's unnatural interest in death”

Synonyms: affected
acted upon; influenced; violent
effected by force or injury rather than natural causes; supernatural
not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; paranormal
not in accordance with scientific laws

Antonyms:: natural
in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; earthy
not far removed from or suggestive of nature; natural
existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation; natural
existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical; show more antonyms...

: aberrant, deviant, deviate
markedly different from an accepted norm; anomalous
deviating from the general or common order or type; antidromic
conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal; atypical, irregular
deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal; brachydactylic, brachydactylous
having abnormally short finger or toes; defective
markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior; freakish
characteristic of a freak; kinky, perverted
(used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes; subnormal
below normal or average; supernormal
exceeding the normal or average; vicarious
occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; insane
afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement

Antonyms:: normal
conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; average, mean
approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; average, median
relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); average, modal
relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; natural
functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies; regular
not deviating from what is normal; typical
conforming to a type; sane
mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; standard
conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind; show more antonyms...

: agonistic, strained
struggling for effect; artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted
artificially formal; constrained, forced, strained
lacking spontaneity; not natural; elocutionary
(used of style of speaking) overly embellished; mannered
having unnatural mannerisms; plummy
(of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich; studied
produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation

Antonyms:: unaffected
free of artificiality; sincere and genuine; lifelike, natural
free from artificiality; unmannered
without artificiality; natural; unselfconscious
not self-conscious; unstilted
flowing naturally and continuously; uncontrived, unstudied
not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu; show more antonyms...

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