| 单词 | unnatural |
| 释义 | unnatural (once / 489 pages) adj Something unnatural is strange, fake, or abnormal. If you dye your hair hot pink, it's going to look unnatural — especially to your conservative grandparents. It's unnatural for a wild animal to live inside someone's house; it goes against the way the animal normally lives in its natural environment. You could also describe your bright blue bottle of juice as an unnatural color. And if you try to impress someone by speaking in a French accent, that would also be unnatural. Unnatural adds the "not" prefix un- to natural, which comes from the Latin word naturalis, "by birth," or "according to nature." WORD FAMILYunnatural: unnaturally, unnaturalness+/denaturalise: denaturalised, denaturalises/denaturalize: denaturalized, denaturalizes, denaturalizing/natural: naturalise, naturalism, naturalize, naturally, naturalness, naturals, nonnatural, supernatural, unnatural/naturalisation: naturalisations/naturalise: denaturalise, naturalisation, naturalised, naturalises, naturalising/naturalised: unnaturalised/naturalism: naturalist, naturalistic/naturalist: naturalists/naturalistic: naturalistically/naturalization: naturalizations/naturalize: denaturalize, naturalization, naturalized, naturalizes, naturalizing/naturalized: unnaturalized/naturalness: naturalnesses/nature: ill-natured, natural, natures, naturism/naturism: naturist, naturistic/naturist: naturists/supernatural: supernaturalism, supernaturally, supernaturalness, supernaturals/supernaturalism: supernaturalisms, supernaturalist, supernaturalistic/unnaturalness: unnaturalnesses USAGE EXAMPLESThe Bangkok Post newspaper reported that authorities suspected an unnatural death. The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016) It would be unnatural if the theater didn’t register the collective consternation. Los Angeles Times(Dec 10, 2016) Wonderfully unnatural, Steinkamp’s apples, oranges, pears, plums and peaches resemble the offspring of an old-fashioned slot machine’s whirling symbols and a galaxy on the fritz. Los Angeles Times(Dec 02, 2016) 1adj not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature an unnatural death the child's unnatural interest in death Syn|Ant affected acted upon; influenced violenteffected by force or injury rather than natural causes supernaturalnot existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material paranormalnot in accordance with scientific laws natural in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature earthynot far removed from or suggestive of nature naturalexisting in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation naturalexisting in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical 2adj not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm Syn|Ant abnormal aberrant, deviant, deviate markedly different from an accepted norm anomalousdeviating from the general or common order or type antidromicconducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal atypical, irregulardeviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal brachydactylic, brachydactyloushaving abnormally short finger or toes defectivemarkedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior freakishcharacteristic of a freak kinky, perverted(used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes subnormalbelow normal or average supernormalexceeding the normal or average vicariousoccurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function insaneafflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement normal conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal average, meanapproximating the statistical norm or average or expected value average, medianrelating 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, modalrelating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution naturalfunctioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies regularnot deviating from what is normal typicalconforming to a type sanementally healthy; free from mental disorder standardconforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind 3adj speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression Syn|Ant affected agonistic, strained struggling for effect artificial, contrived, hokey, stiltedartificially formal constrained, forced, strainedlacking spontaneity; not natural elocutionary(used of style of speaking) overly embellished manneredhaving unnatural mannerisms plummy(of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich studiedproduced or marked by conscious design or premeditation unaffected free of artificiality; sincere and genuine lifelike, naturalfree from artificiality unmanneredwithout artificiality; natural unselfconsciousnot self-conscious unstiltedflowing naturally and continuously uncontrived, unstudiednot by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu |
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