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# unnatural

«unnatural» in Mova's school dictionary: **not natural; made by people or different from what…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unnatural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unnatural means not natural; made by people or different from what usually happens in nature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unnatural/#m1)

2) Unnatural means strange, odd or not normal, like an unnatural silence or colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unnatural/#m2)

3) Unnatural behaviour is forced or false, not relaxed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unnatural/#m3)

4) Unnatural can also describe someone who is cruel in a way that goes against normal love and kindness, such as a parent who harms their own children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unnatural/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science: unnatural colours in food come from dyes; unnatural things are made by people (synthetic). In stories it signals something creepy: «an unnatural silence», «an unnatural glow». In drama lessons: an unnatural voice sounds forced.

### examples

- The sweets were an unnatural bright green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unnatural/#x1)
- An unnatural silence fell over the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unnatural/#x2)
- Her smile in the photo looked unnatural. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unnatural/#x3)
- Keeping a parrot alone all day is unnatural for it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unnatural/#x4)
- The lake glowed with an unnatural light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unnatural/#x5)
- Try to speak naturally – shouting every line sounds unnatural. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unnatural/#x6)
- In all of them, the heroine is a princess, who runs away from an unnatural father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unnatural/#x7)

### note

Spelling: double n – «un-» + «natural». Careful: «natural» does not always mean safe, and «unnatural» does not always mean bad.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unnatural» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unnatural/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.