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• Another unsolicited maths take: talking about quotients in terms of "equivalence classes" or cosets is really unnatural.From the entry take
• Adopting a computerlike countermeasure for a problem enabled by computer algorithms is admittedly an unnatural practice.2024 June 5, Ben Guarino, “Defend Yourself against AI Impostor Scams with a Safe Word”, in Scientific American. From the entry admittedly
• A trip of wolves burst from the brush, moving with unnatural speed.2023, Theophilus Monroe, Bloody Brilliance. From the entry trip
• Liminal spaces can be both comforting and discomforting, nostalgic and unsettling, intimate and unnatural.2022 November 1, Jake Pitre, “The Eerie Comfort of Liminal Spaces”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry liminal space
• There are speakers for whom examples like (3a) sound very unnatural (while not totally ungrammatical).2021, Mikhail Knyazev, “Inter-Speaker Variation and Construction-Specific Restrictions on Indexical Shift in Poshkart Chuvash”, in Julia…. From the entry monstrous agreement
• If something moves, then this unnatural change in its state requires explanation.2014, Guido Bonino, Greg Jesson, Javier Cumpa, editors, Defending Realism: Ontological and Epistemological Investigations, Berlin: Walter…. From the entry entelechy
• "Non-avian reptiles" comprise an unnatural group used only for chapter convenience here.2012, Lance Grande, The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time, The University of Chicago Press, page 189. From the entry non-avian
• It is unnatural because excluding birds from Reptilia makes it NON-MONOPHYLETIC.2012, Lance Grande, The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time, The University of Chicago Press, page 189. From the entry non-avian
• To completely back down now would be as unnatural as mooning in front of your girlfriend's parents.2009, Tim Thornton, The Alternative Hero, Random House, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry moon
• Unlike a cataphile, being that far below the surface felt extremely unnatural.2007, Valerie Broadwell, “The Cataphiles”, in City of Light, City of Dark: Exploring Paris Below, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN…. From the entry cataphile
• Clinicide is the unnatural death of multiple patients in the course of treatment by a doctor.2007 August, Robert [M.] Kaplan, “The Clinicide Phenomenon: An Exploration of Medical Murder”, in Gary Walter, editor, Australasian…. From the entry clinicide
• They saw the slope of evolution sliding ignominiously towards an inhumane, unnatural and unatheistic abyss.2006, Brien Masters, Mozart: His Musical Style and His Role in the Development of Human Consciousness, Temple Lodge Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry unatheistic
• The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.2005, George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, spoken by Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), published 2005. From the entry force
• After all, he didn't want his winkle to get so big it became unruly and unnatural.2004, Robert Priest, How to Swallow a Pig. From the entry winkle
• Quaternionics was in its vectorial aspects antiphysical and unnatural, and did not harmonize with common scalar mathematics.1986, Vladimir Naumovich Zharkov, Interior Structure of the Earth and Planets, page 195. From the entry antiphysical
• This reactive recoiling from something clearly in our nature is itself unnatural.1973, Hugh Downs, chapter 11, in Potential: The Way to Emotional Maturity, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 188. From the entry arrestive
• Over-punctuation has the same effect as unnatural variations of the voice and exaggerated gestures in speaking.1957, George Henry Vallins, “Points of Punctuation”, in Good English: How to Write It, London: Pan Books Ltd., page 112. From the entry under-punctuation
• Down there in the bowels of London, after midnight, everything seemed horrible and unnatural.1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 6, in Aaron’s Rod, London: Martin Secker, page 69. From the entry bowels
• Perhaps the queer, unnatural, and possibly disturbing conjunctions of the trans and nonbinary sapphic can help to do just that.2023 July 26, Susan S. Lancer, SAME/DIFFERENCE? TOWARD A SAPPHIC/NONBINARY SEXUALITY OF HISTORY, in…. From the entry sapphic
• So when he negs you, it seems unnatural, and you may worry that something’s wrong with your relationship.2011 December 16, Jessica Knoll, “The Surprising Reasons He Turns You Down For Sex”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 27 Aug…. From the entry neg
• Her frosty red lipstick kept glomming at the corners of her mouth, giving her an unnatural clown frown.2009 August 11, Nancy Grace, The Eleventh Victim, Hachette Books, →ISBN. From the entry glom
• Found art is made out of natural (or sometimes unnatural) things that you find when out and about exploring.2009, Steve Mynard, Learning through Adventurous Activities, page 108. From the entry found art
• The music on “LP” is almost entirely unnatural, booping and puffing, buzzing and ticking in tones no acoustic instrument would make.2009 July 20, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times. From the entry boop
• A completely sharp and unfuzzy relationship between terms is thus actually rather an unnatural one in real languages.2001, Susan Deacy, Alexandra Villing, Athena in the classical world. From the entry unfuzzy
• You say it is fake, artificial, unnatural.1998 April 27, Kris, “I'm not a woman”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet). From the entry T*
• Was there more unnatural a daughter in Christendom and Girlery, Mother's rolling eyes besought me to give her to understand.1987, Mid-American Review - Volumes 7-8, page 43. From the entry girlery
• The immediate and marked success of these two cabalized volumes of James' clearly suggests unnatural skill and power were at work.1969, Robert Brodie MacLeod, William James: Unfinished Business, page 42. From the entry cabalize
• Their stockings were of lustrous silk, their slippers costly and unnatural, their lips carmined and their eyebrows penciled.1932, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, page 441. From the entry carmined
• In fact, the most uncanny contemporary liminal spaces combine the familiarity of, say, a New York City tourist magnet with an unnatural emptiness.2022 November 1, Jake Pitre, “The Eerie Comfort of Liminal Spaces”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry liminal space
• He thought it unnatural and a little awkward, but he was feeling extraordinarily confident with Amelior in his system, so he took a plunge.2013, JSB Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death, page 76. From the entry mis-apostrophize
• Worse than miserly, in fact: unnatural.2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Three”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry miserly
• Edward Jay Roberts didn't get to be an acknowledged leader without three necessary assets: brains, guts, and an almost unnatural absence of fear.2005, David Chapman, ’Til Summer Comes […], Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry double dog dare
• Coupled with sewage, the unnatural intensity of these nutrients makes the algae in the bay overbloom, and too much algae in turn blocks sunlight.2004, Robert P. Marzec, The Mid-Atlantic Region, page 83. From the entry overbloom
• Underlying all this speculation is, of course, the big slur: we're some kind of unnatural or abnormal product, outside of humanity and their religions.1989 December 10, Zane Gilstrap, “Speculations About Why We're Gay”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 5. From the entry slur
• But our classification is not really as unnatural as we have perhaps implied, because the arminaceans do have certain important features in common.1976, Charles Maurice Yonge, Living marine molluscs, page 140. From the entry arminacean
• Portions of the ruling reflected the court’s culturally conservative roots, stating that because marriage is only for reproduction, LGBTQ relationships are unnatural because they cannot produce children.2021 December 3, “LGBTQ couples, families and marriage are ‘against the natural order,’ Thai Constitutional Court rules”, in Coconuts…. From the entry marriage equality
• It has led to a style of presentation that does its very best to make foodstuffs, or at least drinkstuffs, look as unnatural but as stylish as possible.2002 February 8, Albert Hill, “Bottle weary: Why is it that modern drinks seem to be aimed more at our eyes than our palates?”, in The…. From the entry drinkstuff
• He maintained -- the thought is not unnatural in a royal historiographer -- that the generous actions of great princes are often twisted and misrepresented by interested critics.1982, Peter Partner, The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and Their Myth, Oxford University Press, page 99. From the entry interested
• Odds and ends I've come across in the course of an education: That arachibutyrophobia is an unnatural fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.1977 March 31, Ball State Daily News, page 4. From the entry arachibutyrophobia

Meaning of unnatural

1. adjective Not natural.
2. adjective Not occurring in nature, the environment or atmosphere.
3. adjective Going against nature; perverse.

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Questions about unnatural in a sentence

How do you use unnatural in a sentence?

Unnatural is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Another unsolicited maths take: talking about quotients in terms of "equivalence classes" or cosets is really unnatural.”

What is a short sentence with unnatural?

“Worse than miserly, in fact: unnatural.”

What does unnatural mean?

Unnatural means not natural.