unnatural
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 →
2) Unnatural means strange, odd or not normal, like an unnatural silence or colour. tree →
3) Unnatural behaviour is forced or false, not relaxed. tree →
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 →
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 →
- An unnatural silence fell over the forest. tree →
- Her smile in the photo looked unnatural. tree →
- Keeping a parrot alone all day is unnatural for it. tree →
- The lake glowed with an unnatural light. tree →
- Try to speak naturally – shouting every line sounds unnatural. tree →
- In all of them, the heroine is a princess, who runs away from an unnatural father. tree →
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.