unnatural

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. artificial, factitious; affected, stagy, insincere; strange, abnormal, foreign; monstrous, freakish, misshapen; merciless, cold. See affectation, malevolence, unconformity.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Contrary to nature]

Syn. monstrous, phenomenal, malformed, anomalous, irregular, unaccountable, abnormal, preposterous, marvelous, uncanny, wonderful, strange, incredible, sublime, Herculean, Atlantean, freakish, unconforming, inhuman, outrageous, unorthodox, miraculous, contrary to known laws; see also cruel 1 , 2 , savage 2 .

Ant. common*, ordinary, usual.

2. [Artificial]

Syn. synthetic, imitation, manufactured, ersatz, concocted, make-up, fabricated, false, pseudo, fake, put-on*, mock, spurious, phoney.

Ant. natural*, occurring, naturally.

See Synonym Study at irregular .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

1. artificial imitation, synthetic, man-made, manufactured, fabricated, processed, ersatz.

2. affected contrived, strained, forced, theatrical, put-on, not spontaneous, studied, stiff, labored.

3. abnormal strange, queer, monstrous, grotesque, freakish.

ANT.: 1. natural, organic, of the earth. 2. sincere, genuine, spontaneous, unstudied, unaffected. 3. normal, ordinary

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Greatly exceeding or departing from the normal course of nature: preternatural, supernatural. See USUAL. 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. 3. Departing from the normal: aberrant, abnormal, anomalistic, anomalous, atypic, atypical, deviant, divergent, irregular, preternatural. See GOOD, USUAL. 4. Marked by unnaturalness, pretension, and often a slavish love of fads: artificial, factitious, plastic, synthetic. See HONEST.