natural
adjective
existing in or formed by nature.
nonnatural
-
a word derived from
natural.
Example Sentences
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The other is an anxiety that nonnatural fibers negatively affect male fertility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Mi is thinking about designing silk proteins that incorporate nonnatural amino acids, which he says has “boundless potential” to enable silks with totally new properties—perhaps one not only tougher than Kevlar, but stronger, too.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 19, 2023
“If you’re dumping millions of tons of additional nonnatural resources into an environment, you’re going to get massive, massive impacts,” says lead study author Jack Shutt, a conservation ecologist at Manchester Metropolitan University in England.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2022
Government disbursement of land powered the development of the 19th century’s greatest nonnatural infrastructure, railroads, which knitted the nation’s regions into the world’s largest single market.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2021
Now, when a Count sits there deprived of four nonnatural things, he may not venture to think of the fifth, of evacuation.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
