Illustration: During a family photograph in a Japanese living room, everyone sits comfortably together except one uncle who is trying far too hard to look cheerful. His back is rigid, elbows held away from his body, eyes wide, and lips stretched into an implausibly fixed smile.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ自し然ぜん

fushizen

unnatural, awkward

Example sentences

不自然ふしぜんすぎて笑わらっちゃう。
It’s so unnatural that I’m laughing.
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この文章ぶんしょうはアメリカ人じんの私わたしには不自然ふしぜんに感かんじます。
This sentence sounds unnatural to me as an American.
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彼女かのじょは私わたしに不自然ふしぜんに笑わらった。
She gave me a stiff smile.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 不自然

不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
自oneselfOnジ・シKunみずから・おのずから・おのずと
然sort of thing; soOnゼン・ネンKunしか・しかり・しかし

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