Natural

Definition:

  • (a.) Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.
  • (a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.
  • (a.) Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.
  • (a.) Conformed to truth or reality
  • (a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.
  • (a.) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.
  • (a.) Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
  • (a.) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
  • (a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate.
  • (a.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1.
  • (a.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.
  • (a.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
  • (n.) A native; an aboriginal.
  • (n.) Natural gifts, impulses, etc.
  • (n.) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.
  • (n.) A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.

Compare natural with other words:

african vs. natural

natural vs. special

natural vs. raw

inevitable vs. natural

human vs. natural

crude vs. natural

authentic vs. natural

elemental vs. natural

figuline vs. natural

natural vs. semination

fashionless vs. natural

natural vs. naturality

natural vs. nonnatural

betulin vs. natural

natural vs. umbelliferone

ingenuine vs. natural

natural vs. physiocrat

natural vs. necessitude

inherent vs. natural

natural vs. plain

intact vs. natural

natural vs. normal

connected vs. natural

instinctive vs. natural

intrinsic vs. natural

intelligence vs. natural

natural vs. neutral

mobile vs. natural

natural vs. wildland

natural vs. zoopraxiscope

natural vs. preternaturally

earthy vs. natural

anthraquinone vs. natural

natural vs. racemic

denaturalize vs. natural

natural vs. processed

natural vs. sunken

natural vs. totem

natural vs. sophisticate

flair vs. natural

madderwort vs. natural

natural vs. propagation

cyclorama vs. natural

birdwatcher vs. natural

birdwatching vs. natural

deposition vs. natural

natural vs. skylight

caoutchouc vs. natural

animism vs. natural

artless vs. natural

natural vs. normalization

natural vs. resonance

natural vs. terrace

drainage vs. natural

clerestory vs. natural

antagonism vs. natural

natural vs. preservative

isoprene vs. natural

natural vs. wilderness

natural vs. partial

landmark vs. natural

heliochrome vs. natural

natural vs. spontaneous

natural vs. physical

denature vs. natural

natural vs. preternatural

natural vs. propane

natural vs. organic

natural vs. temperance

genuine vs. natural

conservation vs. natural

natural vs. verisimilar

humus vs. natural

ethane vs. natural

connatural vs. natural

nation vs. natural

hexachord vs. natural

bord vs. natural

natural vs. seismology

natural vs. venus

cohort vs. natural

natural vs. teleology

natural vs. supernatural

fertilizer vs. natural

gift vs. natural

bauble vs. natural

natural vs. prenatal

natural vs. naturalism

natural vs. naturism

nativism vs. natural

nativity vs. natural

native vs. natural

nascent vs. natural

antenatal vs. natural

innate vs. natural

natural vs. unnatural

natural vs. naturalist

natural vs. naturalize

natural vs. naturalness

natural vs. naturally

freak vs. natural

abnormal vs. natural

aberrant vs. natural

adjustment vs. natural

love vs. natural

modification vs. natural

additive vs. natural

natural vs. smooth

natural vs. sharp

natural vs. sublimate

flat vs. natural

effect vs. natural

bird vs. natural

natural vs. outdoors

acclimatize vs. natural

manufactured vs. natural

natural vs. synthetic

medicated vs. natural

artificial vs. natural

god vs. natural

natural vs. sexual

natural vs. nature

natural vs. realism

accidental vs. natural

natal vs. natural

bridge vs. natural

bond vs. natural

natural vs. swim

equal vs. natural

anchor vs. natural

evidence vs. natural