Meaning of 'natural' (Webster Dictionary)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Conformed to truth or reality
- Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or
exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture,
tone, etc.
- Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according
to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is
natural.
- Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to
one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
- Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
- Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock;
illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.
- 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.
- 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.
- Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat,
in distinction from instrumental music.
- Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a
sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.
- Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by
easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original
key.
- A native; an aboriginal.
- Natural gifts, impulses, etc.
- One born without the usual powers of reason or
understanding; an idiot.
- 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.
Meaning of 'natural' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- someone regarded as certain to succeed
Example in sentence:- he's a natural for the job
Meaning (2):
- existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation
Example in sentence:- a natural pearl;
- a natural sweetener;
- natural blonde hair;
- natural fertilizers;
- natural gas;
- natural silk
Meaning (3):
- (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone
Example in sentence:- a natural scale;
- B natural
Meaning (4):
- existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical
Example in sentence:- a perfectly natural explanation
Meaning (5):
- in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature
Example in sentence:- a very natural development;
- natural cliffs;
- natural phenomena;
- natural resources;
- natural science;
- our natural environment
Meaning (6):
- (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related
Example in sentence:- biological child;
- natural parent
Meaning (7):
- being talented through inherited qualities
Example in sentence:- a born musician;
- a natural leader;
- an innate talent
Meaning (8):
- unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct
Example in sentence:- a cat's natural aversion to water;
- offering to help was as instinctive as breathing
Meaning (9):
- functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies
Example in sentence:- a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild;
- it's the natural thing to happen;
- natural immunity
Meaning (10):
- free from artificiality
Example in sentence:- a lifelike pose;
- a natural reaction
Meaning (11):
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
Example in sentence:- bales of rude cotton;
- natural produce;
- natural yogurt;
- raw sugar;
- raw wool
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