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词汇 unnatural
释义 unnatural
adjective
uk /ʌnˈnætʃ.ər.əl/ us /ʌnˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
B2
not natural不自然的;勉强的;反常的
Examples

Her translation is too literal , resulting in heavy, unnatural prose.
The dialogue sounded stilted and unnatural, perhaps because of the translation from the original Russian.对话听起来很生硬,非常不自然,可能是因为从俄文原著翻译过来的缘故。
The daffodils are already coming out, which seems unnatural for so early in the year.
It would be unnatural not to feel concerned for your children's future.
She's died her hair in an attempt to cover up the grey, but it looks unnatural.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Natural and artificial
anti-natural
artificial
artificiality
artificially
biodynamic
fake
false
freshness
God-given
imitation
organically
pure
rawness
refined
simulated
unenriched
unnaturally
unposed
unprocessed
untamed

Related word


unnaturally

unnatural | American Dictionary


unnatural
adjective
us/ʌnˈnætʃ·ər·əl/
not found in nature; artificial:
Nothing unnatural or polluting can be used.
The recordings have an unnatural sound.
Behavior or feelings that are described as unnatural are not usual or acceptable.

Examples of unnatural


unnatural
Fiction has calculated the human cost of the more unnatural aspects of advances in natural science.
The repetition in subsequent utterances is very unnatural.
A disorganised opposition finds it difficult (and even ' unnatural ') to try to articulate policy programmes or to scrutinise government activities in any systematic manner.
However, in example (31b) the expression at the one time that would sound to us somewhat unnatural.
The barrows, which were clearly visible in the landscape as 'unnatural' features, may have been related to earlier mythical inhabitants of the land.
Besides deviant, the more popular stereotype of the convent was that it was both unnatural and unproductive.
The second unnatural feature is that the children of paradise grow up without consciousness.
Both characters are congenitally villainous, driven by some natural (or unnatural) inborn perversion.
In an evolutionary sense, cuts in film must be grossly unnatural.
It is unnatural to study the individual outside his collectivity, to not mention the social conventions that shape his society.
The idea of evaluating cases on a linear scale is, therefore, both unnatural and problematic; so why not abandon it?
The disadvantages of this trajectory-control approach include its inefficiency in actuating the bipedal walking and the unnatural looking of the gait.
Some difficulties with this model are pointed out : for example, unnatural and natural rules have equal status, and words are hard to separate into morphemes.
From this point of view wholemeal bread is just as 'unnatural' after 9000 years as white bread, which became common food only 100 years ago.
Furthermore, the standard implies that every act of ending someone's life implies an unnatural death, which has to be reported to state authorities.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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