unnaturally

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ʌnˈnætʃərəli/ UK /ʌnˈnætʃərəli/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adv
in a way that is not natural or normal

His smile was unnaturally wide and forced.

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Synonyms

1 adv · in a way that is not... abnormally unusually strangely artificiallyanomalouslyaberrantly

Opposites

naturally normally ordinarily spontaneously

Word family

Related forms natural unnatural nature naturally

Etymology

From unnatural (un- 'not' + natural, from Latin naturalis 'by nature', from natura 'birth, nature', from nasci 'to be born') + -ly.

un- Old English naturalis Latin natura Latin nasci Latin

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# unnaturally

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adv
**IPA (US):** /ʌnˈnætʃərəli/
**IPA (UK):** /ʌnˈnætʃərəli/

## Meanings
1. in a way that is not natural or normal

## Examples
- His smile was unnaturally wide and forced.

## Synonyms
- abnormally
- unusually
- strangely
- artificially
- anomalously
- aberrantly

## Antonyms
- naturally
- normally
- ordinarily
- spontaneously

## Related Forms
- natural
- unnatural
- nature
- naturally

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: un-
- Root: naturalis
- Root: natura
- Root: nasci

## Etymology
From unnatural (un- 'not' + natural, from Latin naturalis 'by nature', from natura 'birth, nature', from nasci 'to be born') + -ly.

## AI Etymology
Unnaturally comes from unnatural (un- 'not' + natural, from Latin naturalis 'by nature', from natura 'birth, nature', from nasci 'to be born') + -ly. The historical chain includes Old English un-, Latin naturalis, Latin natura, and Latin nasci. The quoted older senses, "not", "by nature", "birth, nature", and "to be born", supply the semantic anchors for unnaturally. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, and borrowed: the word unnaturally carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adv, "in a way that is not natural or normal". Related English forms include natural, unnatural, nature, and naturally. The result is a adv whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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