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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

... Maxim, in Artificial and Natural Flight, details the engine which he constructed for use with his giant experimental flying machine, and his description is worthy of reproduction since it is that of the only steam engine besides Giffard's, and apart from those used for the propulsion of models, ...

— A History of Aeronautics • E. Charles Vivian

... following example will suffice to show. Cut on one of these pillars we discovered the crude likeness of a mummy, by the head of which sat what appeared to be the figure of an Egyptian god, doubtless the handiwork of some old-world labourer in the mine. This work of art was executed at the natural height at which an idle fellow, be he Phoenician workman or British cad, is in the habit of trying to immortalise himself at the expense of nature's masterpieces, namely, about five feet from the ground. Yet at the time that ...

— King Solomon's Mines • H. Rider Haggard

... these pictographs are simply pictures, rude etchings, or paintings, delineating natural objects, especially animals, and illustrate simply the beginning of pictorial art; others we know were intended to commemorate events or to represent other ideas entertained by their authors; but to a large extent these were simply mnemonic—not conveying ideas of themselves, ...

— On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data - (1881 N 01 / 1879-1880 (pages 73-86)) • J. W. Powell

... men been loved so implicitly by women as in the nineteenth; nor could this be otherwise, for putting aside the fact that the natural wants of love have become a nervous erethism in the struggle that a surplus population of more than two million women has created, there are psychological reasons that to-day more than ever impel women to shrink from the intellectual ...

— Muslin • George Moore

... inflexible Republican that ever existed," his self-repression in drawing up such a document, accepting restored Royalty, and casting away the chance of a Republic, must have been colossal. In Royalist historians of the seventeenth century this kind of reasoning was natural, but one is surprised to find it affecting a mind so able and candid as Godwin's. There is no reason to doubt that, when the Heads of Proposals were settled, they expressed the real and deliberate conclusions of the Army ...

— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson

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