natural
IPA: nˈætʃɝʌɫ
noun
- (now rare) A native inhabitant of a place, country etc.
- (music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental.
- (music) The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.
- One with an innate talent at or for something.
- An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
- (archaic) One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) One's life.
- (US, colloquial) A hairstyle for people with Afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.
- (slang, chiefly in plural) A breast which has not been modified.
- (bodybuilding) Someone who has not used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
- (craps) A roll of two dice with a score of 7 or 11 on the comeout roll.
adjective
- Existing in nature.
- Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.
- Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.
- As expected; reasonable, normal; naturally arising from the given circumstances.
- Formed by nature; not manufactured or created by artificial processes.
- Pertaining to death brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc.
- Having an innate ability to fill a given role or profession, or display a specified character.
- (mathematics)
- Designating a standard trigonometric function of an angle, as opposed to the logarithmic function.
- (algebra) Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.
- (music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.
- Containing no artificial or man-made additives; especially (of food) containing no colourings, flavourings or preservatives.
- Pertaining to a decoration that preserves or enhances the appearance of the original material; not stained or artificially coloured.
- Pertaining to a fabric still in its undyed state, or to the colour of undyed fabric.
- (dice games) Pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result.
- (bodybuilding) Not having used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
- (bridge) Bidding in an intuitive way that reflects one's actual hand.
- Pertaining to birth or descent; native.
- Having a given status (especially of authority) by virtue of birth.
- Related genetically but not legally to one's father; born out of wedlock, illegitimate.
- Related by birth; genetically related.
adverb
- (colloquial, dialect) Naturally; in a natural manner.
Examples of "natural" in Sentences
- The natural beauty of the Berry Islands is extraordinary.
- Most setters are born with a natural proclivity to hunting.
- They were marveled with the lush natural beauty of the state.
- Wells is naturally beautiful and has the candy floss as well.
- Our natural anticipations deceive us -- I say _natural_ in contra-distinction to extravagant expectations.
- I am frequently asked if the natural instincts of men and women will not guide aright in the selection of a consort, and my answer is yes, if the instincts of men and women _were natural_.
- It might be thought that there is nothing that can be done to begin a discussion of natural law theory in ethics other than to stipulate a meaning for ˜natural law theory™ and to proceed from there.
- Most often, ˜non-naturalism™ denotes the metaphysical thesis that moral properties exist and are not identical with or reducible to any natural property or properties in some interesting sense of ˜natural™.
- Since the natural end of each person is to achieve moral and spiritual perfection, it is necessary to have the means to do so, i.e., to have rights which, since they serve to realise his or her nature, are called ˜natural™.
- Not because so many Americans are ignorant bible-thumping bigots, but because they have a healthy and natural aversion to homosexuality - an aversion *placed there by nature* because it isn't *natural* for people of the same gender to have sexual relations.
- Our ˜natural benevolent affections™ guide us to do good toward some small sector of humankind (a small sector composed of our friends, promisees, colleagues, family, etc.), and stifling such natural tendencies would leave only “a very feeble counterpoise to self-love” and thus little from which to develop a more extended and generalized benevolence (434).
- We should not object to that inequality which is natural -- to the superior ability and superior virtue which place one man far above his fellows; but we should object to an immense inequality, _which is not natural_, and which sometimes places the superior man at the mercy and in the service of one who has no ability whatever, -- who is simply born to rule by means of _hereditary wealth_.
- And when Dr. Martineau talks of the "natural penalties for guilt," and adds that "sin being there, it would be simply monstrous that there should be no suffering and would fully justify the despair which now raises its sickly cry of complaint against the retributory wretchedness of human transgression" (_Study_ II., p. 106), the reply is that there are no such things as "_natural_ penalties for guilt."
- The prophecies of the Bible are not vague general denunciations of natural decline and extinction to all the nations of the world, which, if they were merely the exposition of a universal _natural_ law of national death, they would be; nor yet the application of any such natural and inevitable law to some particular nation, denouncing its destruction, without any specification of time, manner, instrument, or cause of its infliction.