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natural
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[ adjective ] in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature
Examples "a very natural development" "our natural environment" "natural science" "natural resources" "natural cliffs" "natural phenomena" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)They come in crisp basket_weaves in natural honey hues , along with lacy open weaves with a lustre finish in natural , white , black and a whole range of colors . He won't submit to his natural desires all_the_time , and it 's Mother 's love that is responsible_for his good behavior . ("Editorials"...)When one powerful nation strives to emulate the success of another , it is only natural . (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)On_the_other_hand , Christian faith knows that death is more than the natural termination of temporal existence . If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination , the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator . Related terms unnatural connatural elemental born intuitive instinctive earthy naturalness |
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[ adjective ] existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation
Examples "a natural pearl" "natural gas" "natural silk" "natural blonde hair" "a natural sweetener" "natural fertilizers" Used in print (Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)And like this English master , Mason realizes his subjects in large , simplified masses which , though they seem effortless , are in_reality the result of skilled design born of hard work and a thorough distillation of the natural form that inspired them . (The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)Moreover , man may_not supplant or frustrate the physical arrangements established by God , who through the law of rhythm has provided a natural method for the control of conception . (William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)What of the efficiency of this natural instrument of free discussion ? (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)William_Gilmore_Simms , sturdy realist that he was , pleaded for a natural robustness such_as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans , to vivify the pale writings being produced around him . (The Family Fallout Shelter. Office of Civil and Defence...)A family dwelling without a basement provides some natural shielding from fallout radiation . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical
Examples "a perfectly natural explanation" Used in print (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)This arrangement had the purpose to prevent heated gas to reach the thermocouple by natural convection . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)He is confronted with the recurrent crises , such_as great natural catastrophes and the great transitions of life - marriage , incurable disease , widowhood , old_age , the certainty of death . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)We find it in the later Stoic conception of man 's natural condition which included the community of all possessions . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (biology) functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies
Examples "it's the natural thing to happen" "natural immunity" "a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild" Used in print (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)A number of unique medical problems might be created when man is exposed to an infectious agent through the respiratory route rather_than by the natural portal of entry . |
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[ adjective ] not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu
Synonyms Examples "an air of unstudied spontaneous utterance is apt to be painstakingly achieved" "simple unstudied charm" Used in print (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)There was no time to pick_out a penny ; I got a coin between my thumb and forefinger , leaned my elbows in a very natural and casual manner on top of the truck cab and flipped my little missile . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] relating to or concerning nature
Examples "natural science" "our natural environment" Used in print (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)In agriculture , for_example , despite the advances in biology , elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed condition
Examples "natural yogurt" "natural produce" "raw wool" "raw sugar" "bales of rude cotton" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] being talented through inherited qualities
Examples "a natural leader" "a born musician" "an innate talent" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] free of artificiality; sincere and genuine
Synonyms Examples "an unaffected grace" Related terms affected lifelike unstilted unselfconscious unmannered unstudied affectedness |
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[ adjective ] unaffected and natural looking
Synonyms Examples "a lifelike pose" "a natural reaction" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (music) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
Synonyms Related terms |
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[ adjective ] involving or derived from living organisms; free from chemical treatments or additives
Synonyms Examples "organic gardening is more natural" "nonsynthetic fertilizer" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] produced without being planted or without human labor
Synonyms Examples "wild strawberries" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] born out of wedlock
Synonyms Examples "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman Related terms |
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[ noun ] someone regarded as certain to succeed
Examples "he's a natural for the job" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct
Synonyms Examples "a cat's natural aversion to water" "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing" Related terms |
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