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unnatural

adj
/ʌnˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹəl/

Etymology

From Middle English unnatural, unnaturel, equivalent to un- + natural.

  1. inherited from unnatural

Definitions

  1. Not natural.

  2. Not occurring in nature, the environment or atmosphere

  3. Going against nature

    Going against nature; perverse.

    • One mother, when she heard that her daughter intended to take up medicine, retired to her room and wept, bewailing the fact that she had given birth to an "unnatural daughter."
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. One who is unnatural, against nature, perverse.

      • Deviants, heretics, pinks, false prophets and other unnaturals will not be spared the rod nor the stark fist of removal.

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Derived

unnatural selection, unnaturally, unnaturalness

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unnatural. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at unnatural. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at unnatural

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA