NATURAL as NOUN

  1. 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
  2. Meaning
    • a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) natural is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Derived(s)
  3. Meaning
    • someone regarded as certain to succeed
    Usage Example(s)
    • 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

  1. Meaning
    • unaffected and natural looking
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    • a lifelike pose
    • a natural reaction
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  2. Meaning
    • being talented through inherited qualities
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    • a natural leader
    • a born musician
    • an innate talent
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  3. Meaning
    • related by blood
    • not adopted
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    • natural parent
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  4. Meaning
    • in accordance with nature
    • relating to or concerning nature
    Usage Example(s)
    • a very natural development
    • our natural environment
    • natural science
    • natural resources
    • natural cliffs
    • natural phenomena
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  5. Meaning
    • existing in or produced by nature
    • not artificial or imitation
    Usage Example(s)
    • a natural pearl
    • natural gas
    • natural silk
    • natural blonde hair
    • a natural sweetener
    • natural fertilizers
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  6. 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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  7. Meaning
    • of a key containing no sharps or flats
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    • B natural
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  8. Meaning
    • 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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  9. Meaning
    • (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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  10. Meaning
    • unthinking
    • prompted by (or as if by) instinct
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • a cat’’s natural aversion to water
    • offering to help was as instinctive as breathing
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