natural
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Inherited from Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb). Displaced native Old English ġecynde. By surface analysis, natur(e) + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more natural
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most natural
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: naturall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nat'ral
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: naturals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: naturall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nat'ral
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
examples: The natural Love of Life gave me some inward Motions of Joy.
With strong natural sense, and rare force of will, he found himself, when first his mind began to open, a fatherless and motherless child, the chief of a great but depressed and disheartened party, and the heir to vast and indefinite pretensions, which excited the dread and aversion of the oligarchy then supreme in the United Provinces.
A South African Uber driver is causing excitement with his impressive operatic singing but, however much natural talent you have, it is a long road to La Scala.
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
examples: The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed.
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
examples: It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays.
His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime.
What can be more natural or more moving than the circumſtances in which he deſcribes the behaviour of thoſe women who had loſt their huſbands on this fatal day ?
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
examples: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
examples: She died of natural causes.
Cancer patient David Paterson, 81, was close to a natural death when he was suffocated by Heather Davidson, 54, in the bedroom of his care home in North Yorkshire on 11 February.
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
examples: Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
examples: There's a wrong note here: it should be C natural instead of C sharp.
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
examples: Natural food is healthier than processed food.
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
gloss: Existing in nature.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to birth or descent; native.
pos: adj
examples: Whom should he follow but his naturall king.
I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king, if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me.
gloss: Pertaining to birth or descent; native.
pos: adj
examples: [M]y Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl […].
“What! do not you know who Miss Williams is? I am sure you must have heard of her before. She is a relation of the Colonel’s, my dear; a very near relation. We will not say how near, for fear of shocking the young ladies.” Then lowering her voice a little, she said to Elinor, “She is his natural daughter.” “Indeed!” “Oh! yes; and as like him as she can stare. I dare say the Colonel will leave her all his fortune.” Lady Middleton’s delicacy was shocked; an in order to banish so improper a subject as the mention of a natural daughter, she actually took the trouble of saying something herself about the weather.
Mrs Taft […] had got it into her head that Mr Lydgate was a natural son of Bulstrode's, a fact which seemed to justify her suspicions of evangelical laymen.
Dr Erasmus Darwin set up his two illegitimate daughters as the governesses of a school, noting that natural children often had happier (because less pretentious) upbringings than legitimate.
gloss: Pertaining to birth or descent; native.
pos: adj
examples: The first-born in every house, “from the first-born of the Pharaoh on the throne, to the first-born of the captive in the dungeon,” unaccountably found himself enlisted in the ranks of this new power, and estranged from his natural friends.
gloss: A native inhabitant of a place, country, etc.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: I coniecture and assure my selfe that yee cannot be ignorant by what meanes this peace hath bin thus happily both for our proceedings and the welfare of the Naturals concluded […]
gloss: A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One with an innate talent at or for something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He's a natural on the saxophone.
gloss: An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Why is not this better now, then groning for Loue, now art thou ſociable, now art thou Romeo : now art thou what thou art, by Art as well as by Nature, for this driueling Loue is like a great Naturall, that runs lolling vp and downe to hid his bable in a hole.
A Noble-man tooke a great liking to a naturall, and had covenanted with his parents to take him from them and to keepe him for his pleaſure, and demanding of the Ideot if he would ſerve him, he made him this anſwere, My Father ſaith he, got me to be his foole of my mother, now if you long to have a foole; go & without doubt you may get one of your owne wife.
"Why you are a natural! I thought you had learned something by this time.
gloss: One's life.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: ‘Sergeant-Major Robinson came in in the middle of it, and you've never seen a man look more surprised in your natural.’
gloss: A hairstyle for people with Afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: Chinosole, who stopped straightening her hair and cut it into a natural while at a predominantly white college, was quite uneasy with the style
I wanted to do it for so long — throw out my chemically relaxed hair for a natural.
Third, it insinuates that black afro hairstyles (e.g., naturals) relate to African cultural heritage, which is largely untrue.
gloss: A breast which has not been modified by plastic surgery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
slang
uncountable
examples: big naturals
> Nina Hartley ¶ 2, unattractive, square "steriod^([sic]) jaw", nice ass, FAKE breasts or small naturals, great sexual presence […] > Marilyn Monroe ¶ 7, decent body, medium NATURALS, stereotypical "godess^([sic])/playboy" blond/blue doesn't usually work for me, good sexual presence
She's [Eva/Mercedes] a brunette European with a curvy natural body with nice tits. For that matter, there are lots of women in Rocco [Siffredi]'s vids with nice naturals.
It isn't the big naturals on a little torso that do it for me, since that is not my thing.
I’m really a good person with a good heart and I believe there is someone out there who will love me. Hopefully a Mexican hottie with big naturals.
gloss: Someone who has not used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing substances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For so long I stayed natural because it was a sense of pride to me that as a natural I was still competing and beating guys who were juicing up.
gloss: A roll of two dice with a score of 7 or 11 on the comeout roll.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: antenatal
au naturel
innate
nascent
natal
native
nativism
nativity
nativization
naturalism
naturism
prenatal
Derived words: all-natural
Cartesian natural transformation
conatural
connatural
contranatural
cosmological natural selection
counternatural
dinatural
extra-natural
hypernatural
infranatural
liquefied natural gas
liquid natural gas
liquified natural gas
metanatural
naptural
natlang
natty
natural advantages
natural aging
natural birth
natural-born
natural breast
natural burial
natural business year
natural causes
natural child
natural childbirth
natural convection
natural daughter
natural death
natural deduction
natural disaster
natural economy
naturalesque
natural family planning
natural fiber
natural fibre
natural food
natural fool
natural frequency
natural function
natural gas
natural gas liquid
natural gasoline
natural gender
natural grammar
natural harmonic
natural historian
natural history
natural increase rate
naturalise
naturalize
natural isomorphism
naturalist
naturalistic
natural join
natural key
natural killer
natural killer cell
natural language
natural language processing
natural language understanding
natural law
natural leaven
natural life sentence
natural light
natural log
natural logarithm
naturally
natural magic
natural marriage
natural medicine
natural minor scale
natural monopoly
naturalness
natural number
natural numbers
natural numbers object
natural parts
natural person
natural philosopher
natural philosophy
natural preserve
natural price
natural product
natural protection
natural religion
natural reserve
natural resource
natural resources
natural right
natural rubber
natural scale
natural science
natural scientist
natural selection
natural sherry
natural slope
natural son
natural steel
natural stupidity
natural theologian
natural theology
natural transformation
natural trumpet
natural unit
natural uranium
natural user interface
natural virtue
natural vowel
natural wastage
natural world
nonnatural
paranatural
postnatural
preternatural
semi-natural
seminatural
subnatural
supranatural
ultranatural
ultra-natural
unnatural
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: luonnollinen
lang: Ancient Greek
word: αὐτοφυής
roman: autophuḗs
lang: Russian
word: приро́дный
roman: priródnyj
lang: Russian
word: есте́ственный
roman: jestéstvennyj
lang: Albanian
word: natyral
lang: Albanian
word: natyror
lang: Arabic
word: طَبِيعِيّ
roman: ṭabīʕiyy
lang: Armenian
word: բնական
roman: bnakan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: təbii
lang: Bashkir
word: тәбиғи
roman: təbiği
lang: Belarusian
word: прыро́дны
roman: pryródny
lang: Bulgarian
word: природе́н
roman: prirodén
lang: Bulgarian
word: есте́ствен
roman: estéstven
lang: Catalan
word: natural
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 自然的
roman: zìrán de
lang: Czech
word: přírodní
lang: Danish
word: naturlig
lang: Dutch
word: natuurlijk
lang: Esperanto
word: natura
lang: Estonian
word: looduslik
lang: Estonian
word: loomulik
lang: Finnish
word: luonnollinen
lang: Finnish
word: luonnonmukainen
lang: French
word: naturel
lang: Galician
word: natural
lang: Georgian
word: ბუნებრივი
roman: bunebrivi
lang: German
word: natürlich
lang: Greek
word: φυσικός
roman: fysikós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: φυσικός
roman: phusikós
lang: Haitian Creole
word: natirel
lang: Hebrew
word: טִבְעִי
roman: tiv'i
lang: Hindi
word: प्राकृतिक
roman: prākŕtik
lang: Hungarian
word: természeti
lang: Ido
word: naturala
lang: Indonesian
word: alami
lang: Interlingua
word: natural
lang: Irish
word: nádúrtha
lang: Italian
word: naturale
lang: Italian
word: bequadro
lang: Japanese
word: 自然な
roman: shizen na
lang: Japanese
word: 天然の
roman: tennen no
lang: Kazakh
word: табиғи
roman: tabiği
lang: Korean
word: 자연의
roman: jayeon-ui
lang: Latin
word: nātūrālis
lang: Latvian
word: dabīgs
lang: Latvian
word: dabisks
lang: Macedonian
word: при́роден
roman: príroden
lang: Macedonian
word: е́стествен
roman: éstestven
lang: Malay
word: semulajadi
lang: Māori
word: urutapu
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: naturlig
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: naturlig
lang: Old English
word: ġecynde
lang: Pashto
word: طبيعي
roman: tabi'i
lang: Persian
word: طبیعی
roman: tabi'i
lang: Polish
word: naturalny
lang: Portuguese
word: natural
lang: Romanian
word: natural
lang: Russian
word: приро́дный
roman: priródnyj
lang: Russian
word: есте́ственный
roman: jestéstvennyj
lang: Northern Sami
word: lunddolaš
lang: Scots
word: naitural
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: nàdarrach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: при́родан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prírodan
lang: Slovak
word: prírodný
lang: Slovene
word: naraven
lang: Spanish
word: natural
lang: Swedish
word: naturlig
lang: Tajik
word: табиӣ
roman: tabiyi
lang: Tatar
word: табигый
roman: tabiğıy
lang: Telugu
word: సహజమైన
roman: sahajamaina
lang: Turkish
word: doğal
lang: Turkish
word: tabii
lang: Turkish
word: natürel
lang: Turkmen
word: tebigy
lang: Ukrainian
word: приро́дний
roman: pryródnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: природни́чий
roman: pryrodnýčyj
lang: Uyghur
word: تەبىئىي
roman: tebi'iy
lang: Uzbek
word: tabiiy
lang: Armenian
word: բնական
roman: bnakan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: təbii
lang: Belarusian
word: натура́льны
roman: naturálʹny
lang: Bulgarian
word: есте́ствен
roman: estéstven
lang: Dutch
word: natuurlijk
lang: Finnish
word: luomu-
lang: Finnish
word: luonnonmukainen
lang: Finnish
word: lisäaineeton
lang: French
word: naturel
lang: Hebrew
word: טִבְעִי
roman: tiv'i
lang: Hindi
word: प्राकृतिक
roman: prākŕtik
lang: Hungarian
word: természetes
lang: Italian
word: naturale
lang: Korean
word: 자연스럽다
roman: jayeonseureopda
lang: Latvian
word: dabīgs
lang: Macedonian
word: при́роден
roman: príroden
lang: Malay
word: semulajadi
lang: Māori
word: parakore
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: naturlig
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: naturlig
lang: Polish
word: naturalny
lang: Portuguese
word: natural
lang: Quechua
word: purum
lang: Romanian
word: natural
lang: Russian
word: натура́льный
roman: naturálʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: есте́ственный
roman: jestéstvennyj
lang: Northern Sami
word: lunddolaš
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: nàdarrach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: при́родан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prírodan
lang: Spanish
word: natural
lang: Telugu
word: సహజమైన
roman: sahajamaina
lang: Turkish
word: doğal
lang: Turkish
word: tabii
lang: Turkish
word: natürel
lang: Ukrainian
word: натура́льний
roman: naturálʹnyj
lang: Finnish
word: vokaalinen
lang: Finnish
word: luonnonvalkoinen
lang: Finnish
word: luonnonvärinen
lang: German
word: naturfarben
lang: German
word: naturfarbig
lang: Macedonian
word: неутра́лен
roman: neutrálen
lang: Romanian
word: natural
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: neutralna
lang: Bulgarian
word: бекар
roman: bekar
lang: Catalan
word: becaire
lang: Dutch
word: herstellingsteken
lang: Estonian
word: bekarr
lang: Finnish
word: palautusmerkki
lang: French
word: bécarre
lang: Galician
word: becuadro
lang: Greek
word: αναίρεση
roman: anaíresi
lang: Hungarian
word: feloldójel
lang: Hungarian
word: előjegyzés nélküli hang
lang: Latvian
word: bekars
lang: Portuguese
word: bequadro
lang: Russian
word: бека́р
roman: bekár
lang: Spanish
word: becuadro
lang: Swedish
word: återställningstecken