unnatural

adj.

1. In violation of a natural law.
2. Inconsistent with an individual pattern or custom.
3. Deviating from a behavioral or social norm: an unnatural attachment.
4. Contrived or constrained; artificial: smiled in an unnatural manner.
5. In violation of natural feelings; inhuman.

unnaturally un·nat'u·ral·ly adv.
unnaturalness un·nat'u·ral·ness n.

adjective

1. Greatly exceeding or departing from the normal course of nature: preternatural, supernatural. See usual/unusual.
2. Deviating from the customary: bizarre, cranky, curious, eccentric, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unusual, weird. Slang kooky, screwball. British Slang rum, rummy². See usual/unusual.
3. Departing from the normal: aberrant, abnormal, anomalistic, anomalous, atypic, atypical, deviant, divergent, irregular, preternatural. See good/bad, usual/unusual.
4. Marked by unnaturalness, pretension, and often a slavish love of fads: artificial, factitious, plastic, synthetic. See honest/dishonest.

adj

Definition: not regular; artificial
Antonyms: acceptable, genuine, natural, real

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The adjective has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature
  Antonym: natural (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
  Synonym: affected

Meaning #3: distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
  Synonyms: grotesque, monstrous

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - unaturlig

Nederlands (Dutch)
onnatuurlijk, tegennatuurlijk, ongewoon, gekunsteld

Français (French)
adj. - affecté, insolite, dénaturé

Deutsch (German)
adj. - unnatürlich, nicht normal, widernatürlich

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αφύσικος

Italiano (Italian)
innaturale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - antinatural, afetado

Русский (Russian)
неестественный, бессердечный, необычный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - antinatural, anormal, afectado

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - onaturlig, konstlad, onormal

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
不自然的, 不近人情的, 反常的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 不自然的, 不近人情的, 反常的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 부자연한, 꾸민 것 같은

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 不自然な, 異常な, 奇怪な, わざとらしい, 自然の人情に反する, 残酷な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مخالف للطبيعه, شاذ, متكلف, اصطناعي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮לא טבעי, לא נורמלי, חסר רגשות טבעיים, לא-אנושי, מפלצתי, מעושה, מזוייף, אכזרי ביותר‬

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