| unnatural | | |
| adj. | 1. unnatural | not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature.; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural interest in death" |
| ~ affected | acted upon; influenced. |
| ~ violent | effected by force or injury rather than natural causes.; "a violent death" |
| ~ supernatural | not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material.; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings" |
| ~ paranormal | not in accordance with scientific laws.; "what seemed to be paranormal manifestations" |
| adj. | 2. abnormal, unnatural | 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" |
| ~ aberrant, deviant, deviate | markedly different from an accepted norm.; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas" |
| ~ anomalous | deviating from the general or common order or type.; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe" |
| ~ antidromic | conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal. |
| ~ atypical, irregular | deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal.; "these days large families are atypical"; "atypical clinical findings"; "atypical pneumonia"; "highly irregular behavior" |
| ~ brachydactylic, brachydactylous | having abnormally short finger or toes. |
| ~ defective | markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior.; "defective speech" |
| ~ freakish | characteristic of a freak.; "a freakish extra toe" |
| ~ kinky, perverted | (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes.; "kinky sex"; "perverted practices" |
| ~ subnormal | below normal or average.; "after the floods the harvests were subnormal"; "subnormal intelligence" |
| ~ supernormal | exceeding the normal or average.; "years of supernormal employment during the war"; "a phase of supernormal excitability" |
| ~ vicarious | occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function.; "vicarious menstruation" |
| ~ insane | afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement.; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter" |
| adj. | 3. affected, unnatural | speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression. |
| ~ agonistic, strained | struggling for effect.; "agonistic poses" |
| ~ stilted, artificial, contrived, hokey | artificially formal.; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation" |
| ~ constrained, strained, forced | lacking spontaneity; not natural.; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile" |
| ~ elocutionary | (used of style of speaking) overly embellished.; "an elocutionary Oxonian delivery" |
| ~ mannered | having unnatural mannerisms.; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom" |
| ~ plummy | (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich.; "the radio announcer's plummy voice" |
| ~ studied | produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation.; "a studied smile"; "a note of biting irony and studied insult" |
| natural | | |
| n. (person) | 1. natural | someone regarded as certain to succeed.; "he's a natural for the job" |
| ~ achiever, succeeder, winner, success | a person with a record of successes.; "his son would never be the achiever that his father was"; "only winners need apply"; "if you want to be a success you have to dress like a success" |
| n. (communication) | 2. cancel, natural | a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat. |
| ~ musical notation | (music) notation used by musicians. |
| n. (act) | 3. natural | (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake. |
| ~ craps | a gambling game played with two dice; a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses and a first throw of any other number must be repeated to win before a 7 is thrown, which loses the bet and the dice. |
| ~ cast, roll | the act of throwing dice. |
| adj. | 4. natural | in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature.; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena" |
| ~ earthy | not far removed from or suggestive of nature.; "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of new-mown grass" |
| ~ natural | existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation.; "a natural pearl"; "natural gas"; "natural silk"; "natural blonde hair"; "a natural sweetener"; "natural fertilizers" |
| ~ natural | existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical.; "a perfectly natural explanation" |
| adj. | 5. natural | existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation.; "a natural pearl"; "natural gas"; "natural silk"; "natural blonde hair"; "a natural sweetener"; "natural fertilizers" |
| ~ natural | in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature.; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena" |
| ~ unbleached, undyed, uncolored | not artificially colored or bleached.; "unbleached blonde hair"; "her hair is uncolored"; "undyed cotton" |
| adj. | 6. natural | existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical.; "a perfectly natural explanation" |
| ~ physical | according with material things or natural laws (other than those peculiar to living matter).; "a reflex response to physical stimuli" |
| adj. | 7. natural | functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies.; "it's the natural thing to happen"; "natural immunity"; "a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild" |
| ~ biological science, biology | the science that studies living organisms. |
| ~ normal | conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal.; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events" |
| adj. | 8. natural | (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone.; "a natural scale"; "B natural" |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| adj. | 9. instinctive, natural | unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct.; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing" |
| ~ self-generated, spontaneous | happening or arising without apparent external cause.; "spontaneous laughter"; "spontaneous combustion"; "a spontaneous abortion" |
| adj. | 10. natural, raw, rude | (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes.; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" |
| ~ unprocessed | not altered from an original or natural state.; "unprocessed commodities" |
| adj. | 11. natural | related by blood; not adopted. |
| ~ biological | of parents and children; related by blood.; "biological child" |
| adj. | 12. born, innate, natural | being talented through inherited qualities.; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" |
| ~ intelligent | having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree.; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question" |
| adj. | 13. lifelike, natural | free from artificiality.; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction" |
| ~ unaffected | free of artificiality; sincere and genuine.; "an unaffected grace" |
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