natural
natural is a 7-letter English word with 31 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.
- adjective. Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.
- adjective. Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.
- adjective. Conformed to truth or reality
- adjective. Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.
- adjective. Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.
- adjective. Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
- adjective. Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
- adjective. Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.
- adjective. Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate.
- adjective. Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1.
- adjective. Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
- adjective. Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.
- adjective. Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
- noun. A native; an aboriginal.
- noun. Natural gifts, impulses, etc.
- noun. One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.
- noun. A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.
- noun. (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake
- noun. a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
- noun. someone regarded as certain to succeed
"he's a natural for the job"
- adjective. free from artificiality
"a lifelike pose"
"a natural reaction"
- adjective. being talented through inherited qualities
"a natural leader"
"a born musician"
- adjective. related by blood; not adopted
- adjective. in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature
"a very natural development"
"our natural environment"
- adjective. existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation
"a natural pearl"
"natural gas"
- adjective. existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical
"a perfectly natural explanation"
- adjective. (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone
"a natural scale"
"B natural"
- adjective. functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies
"it's the natural thing to happen"
"natural immunity"
- adjective. (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
"natural yogurt"
"natural produce"
- adjective. unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct
"a cat's natural aversion to water"
"offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"
Synonyms
cancel, lifelike, born, innate, raw, rude, instinctive
Common word forms
naturals, naturally, naturalise, naturality, naturalize, naturalness
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