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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unnatural \Un*nat"u*ral\ (?; 135), adjective 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}, adverb -- {Un*nat"u*ral*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unnatural
adjective
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: speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression [syn: {affected}] [ant: {unaffected}]
3: distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes" [syn: {grotesque}, {monstrous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
174 Moby Thesaurus words for "unnatural": 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
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