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Natural

adjective

1.

In accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature. "Our natural environment" , "Natural science" , "Natural resources" , "Natural cliffs" , "Natural phenomena"

2.

Existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation. "Natural gas" , "Natural silk" , "Natural blonde hair" , "A natural sweetener" , "Natural fertilizers"

3.

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

4.

Functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies. "Natural immunity" , "A grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild"

5.

(of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone. "B natural"

6.

Unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct. Synonym: instinctive. "Offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"

7.

(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes. Synonyms: raw, rude. "Natural produce" , "Raw wool" , "Raw sugar" , "Bales of rude cotton"

8.

Related by blood; not adopted.

9.

Being talented through inherited qualities. Synonyms: born, innate. "A born musician" , "An innate talent"

10.

Free from artificiality. Synonym: lifelike. "A natural reaction"

noun

1.

Someone regarded as certain to succeed.

2.

A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat. Synonym: cancel.

3.

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

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"Natural" Quotes from Famous Books

... black will if used in smaller proportions give greys. There is a great variety of tone among greys: reddish greys, bluish greys, greenish greys, and so on. They may be dyed in a considerable variety of ways from a large number of dye-stuffs, both natural and artificial. Of these two classes the latter gives the best result as far as regards brightness of tone, and as regards other properties the greys obtained from the artificial coal-tar colours are fully equal to those from ...

— The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics • Franklin Beech

... which might shake down the whole structure of her existence. She was unsafe, not because she was deceiving Jean Jacques now as to her origin and as to her feelings for him; she was unsafe because of the natural strain of the light of love in her, joined to a passion for comfort and warmth and to a natural self- indulgence. She was determined to make Jean Jacques offer himself before ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... Miss Farrow's apologies and explanations, everyone, of course, expressed himself or herself as very willing to fall in with the suggestion that they should all travel up to town together that day. It also seemed quite natural to them all, even to Bubbles, that Blanche should stay behind for the ...

— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes

... hand, seemed to increase, as was natural, for they were getting farther and farther from land and were exposed to the more violent winds that swept ...

— Adrift in New York - Tom and Florence Braving the World • Horatio Alger

... interview with the Ghost came back upon him, he should feel rebuked and ashamed, and vexed with himself, is, in the morally, intellectually, and emotionally troubled state of his mind, nowise the less natural that he had the best of reasons for the delay because of which he here so unmercifully abuses himself. A man of self-satisfied temperament would never in similar circumstances have done so. But Hamlet was, by nature and education, far from such self-satisfaction; and ...

— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald

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