what does natural mean?
NATURAL as NOUN
- Meaning
- (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake
Hypernyms(s) natural is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
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Hypernyms(s) natural is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
Derived(s)
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- someone regarded as certain to succeed
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- he’’s a natural for the job
Hypernyms(s) natural is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
NATURAL as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- unaffected and natural looking
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- a lifelike pose
- a natural reaction
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- being talented through inherited qualities
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- a natural leader
- a born musician
- an innate talent
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- related by blood
- not adopted
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- in accordance with nature
- relating to or concerning nature
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- a very natural development
- our natural environment
- natural science
- natural resources
- natural cliffs
- natural phenomena
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Attribute(s)
- Meaning
- existing in or produced by nature
- not artificial or imitation
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- a natural pearl
- natural gas
- natural silk
- natural blonde hair
- a natural sweetener
- natural fertilizers
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- Meaning
- existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world
- neither supernatural nor magical
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- a perfectly natural explanation
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- of a key containing no sharps or flats
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- functioning or occurring in a normal way
- lacking abnormalities or deficiencies
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- it’’s the natural thing to happen
- natural immunity
- a grandparent’’s natural affection for a grandchild
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- (used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed condition
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- natural yogurt
- natural produce
- raw wool
- raw sugar
- bales of rude cotton
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- unthinking
- prompted by (or as if by) instinct
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- a cat’’s natural aversion to water
- offering to help was as instinctive as breathing
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