What is the meaning of natural?

noun

  • Someone regarded as certain to succeed.
    • usage: "he's a natural for the job"
  • A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat.
  • Craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake. (

adjective

  • In accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature.
    • usage: "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena"
  • Existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation.
    • usage: "a natural pearl"; "natural gas"; "natural silk"; "natural blonde hair"; "a natural sweetener"; "natural fertilizers"
  • Existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical.
    • usage: "a perfectly natural explanation"
  • Functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies.
    • usage: "it's the natural thing to happen"; "natural immunity"; "a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild"
  • Of a musical note. ( being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone)
    • usage: "a natural scale"; "B natural"
  • Unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct.
    • usage: "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"
  • Used especially of commodities. ( being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes)
    • usage: "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"
  • Related by blood; not adopted.
  • Being talented through inherited qualities.
    • usage: "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent"
  • Free from artificiality.
    • usage: "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction"
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