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disnatured

disnatured adjective: deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Also the simple past and past participle of disnature.

Adjective

disnatured (comparative more disnatured, superlative most disnatured)

  1. (obsolete) Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural.
    • Create her child of spleen, that it may live
      And be a thwart disnatured torment to herc. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • I am not so disnatured a man, Or so ill borne to disesteem her love.1614, Samuel Daniel, Hymen's Triumph

Also used as

disnatured is also the simple past and past participle of disnature.

Forms of disnatured

comparativemore disnatured
superlativemost disnatured

Origin of disnatured

From dis- + natured + -ed: compare Old French desnaturé, French dénaturé.

Questions about disnatured

What does disnatured mean?
Disnatured means deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural.
What part of speech is disnatured?
Disnatured is an adjective.

Words near disnatured in the dictionary

  1. disnaturalize
  2. disnaturalized
  3. disnaturalizes
  4. disnaturalizing
  5. disnature
  6. disnatured
  7. disnatures
  8. disnaturing
  9. disnest
  10. disnested
  11. disnesting

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