natural

Definitions

1. 1adjective

   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.

2. 2adjective

   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.

3. 3adjective

   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.

4. 4adjective

   Conformed to truth or reality

5. 5adjective

   Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.

6. 6adjective

   Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.

7. 7adjective

   Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.

8. 8adjective

   Connected by the ties of consanguinity.

9. 9adjective

   Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.

10. 10adjective

    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.

11. 11adjective

    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.

12. 12adjective

    Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.

13. 13adjective

    Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.

14. 14adjective

    Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.

15. 15noun

    A native; an aboriginal.

16. 16noun

    Natural gifts, impulses, etc.

17. 17noun

    One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.

18. 18noun

    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.

19. 19noun

    (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake

20. 20noun

    a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

    Synonyms

    cancel
21. 21noun

    someone regarded as certain to succeed

    "he's a natural for the job"

22. 22adjective

    free from artificiality

    "a lifelike pose"

    "a natural reaction"

    Synonyms

    lifelike
23. 23adjective

    being talented through inherited qualities

    "a natural leader"

    "a born musician"

    Synonyms

    borninnate
24. 24adjective

    related by blood; not adopted

25. 25adjective

    in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature

    "a very natural development"

    "our natural environment"

26. 26adjective

    existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation

    "a natural pearl"

    "natural gas"

27. 27adjective

    existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical

    "a perfectly natural explanation"

28. 28adjective

    (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone

    "a natural scale"

    "B natural"

29. 29adjective

    functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies

    "it's the natural thing to happen"

    "natural immunity"

30. 30adjective

    (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes

    "natural yogurt"

    "natural produce"

    Synonyms

    rawrude
31. 31adjective

    unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct

    "a cat's natural aversion to water"

    "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"

    Synonyms

    instinctive