Definitions for Natural
ˈnætʃ ər əl, ˈnætʃ rəlnat·u·ral

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1. naturalnoun

   someone regarded as certain to succeed

   "he's a natural for the job"

2. natural, cancelnoun

   a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

3. naturaladjective

   (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake

4. naturaladjective

   in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature

   "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena"

5. naturaladjective

   existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation

   "a natural pearl"; "natural gas"; "natural silk"; "natural blonde hair"; "a natural sweetener"; "natural fertilizers"

6. naturaladjective

   existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical

   "a perfectly natural explanation"

7. naturaladjective

   functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies

   "it's the natural thing to happen"; "natural immunity"; "a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild"

8. naturaladjective

   (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone

   "a natural scale"; "B natural"

9. natural, instinctiveadjective

   unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct

   "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"

10. natural, raw(a), rude(a)adjective

    (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes

    "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"

11. naturaladjective

    related by blood; not adopted

12. natural, born(p), innate(p)adjective

    being talented through inherited qualities

    "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent"

13. lifelike, naturaladjective

    free from artificiality

    "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction"

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1. Naturaladjective

   Hence: Not processed or refined; in the same statre as that existing in nature; as, natural wood; natural foods.

2. Naturaladjective

   Connected by the ties of consanguinity. especially, Related by birth rather than by adoption; as, one's natural mother.

3. Naturaladjective

   (Mus.) (a) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music. (b) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major. (c) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key. (d) Neither flat nor sharp; -- of a tone. (e) Changed to the pitch which is neither flat nor sharp, by appending the sign

4. Naturalnoun

   A person who has an innate talent that makes success in some specific endeavor, such as sports, much easier than for others; as, Pele was a natural in soccer.

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1. naturalnoun

   A native inhabitant of a place, country etc.

2. naturalnoun

   A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental, or the symbol used to indicate such a note.

3. naturalnoun

   One with an innate talent at or for something.

   He's a natural on the saxophone.

4. naturaladjective

   That which exists and evolved within the confines of an eco-system.

   The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed.

5. naturaladjective

   Of or relating to nature.

   In the natural world the fit tend to live on while the weak perish.

6. naturaladjective

   Without artificial additives.

   Natural food is healthier than processed food.

7. naturaladjective

   As expected.

8. naturaladjective

   Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted .

   The piece is played in C natural.

9. naturaladjective

   Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment.

   So-called second-generation silicone breast implants looked and felt more like the natural breast.

10. naturaladjective

    without a condom

    We had a natural fuck.

11. Etymology: from naturalis, from natus, the perfect participle of nascor.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. NATURALadjective

   Etymology: naturel, French, from nature.

   1. Produced or effected by nature.

   There is no natural motion of any particular heavy body, which is perpetual, yet it is possible from them to contrive such an artificial revolution as shall constantly be the cause of itself. John Wilkins, Dedalus.

   2. Illegitimate.

   This would turn the vein of that we call natural, to that of legal propagation; which has ever been encouraged as the other has been disfavoured by all institutions. William Temple.

   3. Bestowed by nature.

   If there be any difference in natural parts, it should seem that the advantage lies on the side of children born from noble and wealthy parents. Jonathan Swift.

   4. Not forced; not farfetched; dictated by nature.

   I will now deliver a few of the properest and naturallest considerations that belong to this piece. Henry Wotton, Arch.

   5. Consonant to natural notions.

   Such unnatural connections become, by custom, as natural to the mind as sun and light: fire and warmth go together, and so seem to carry with them as natural an evidence as self-evident truths themselves. John Locke.

   6. Tender; affectionate by nature.

   To leave his wife, to leave his babes,
   He wants the nat’ral touch. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   7. Unaffected; according to truth and reality.

   What can be more natural than the circumstances in the behaviour of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day. Addison.

   8. Opposed to violent; as, a natural death.

2. Naturalnoun

   Etymology: from nature.

   1. An idiot; one whom nature debars from understanding; a fool.

   That a monster should be such a natural. William Shakespeare.

   Take the thoughts of one out of that narrow compass he has been all his life confined to, you will find him no more capable of reasoning than a perfect natural. John Locke.

   2. Native; original inhabitant.

   The inhabitants and naturals of the place, should be in a state of freemen. George Abbot, Description of the World.

   Oppression, in many places, wears the robes of justice, which domineering over the naturals may not spare strangers, and strangers will not endure it. Walter Raleigh, Essays.

   3. Gift of nature; nature; quality.

   The wretcheder are the contemners of all helps; such as presuming on their own naturals, deride diligence, and mock at terms when they understand not things. Ben Jonson.

   To consider them in their pure naturals, the earl’s intellectual faculties were his stronger part, and the duke, his practical. Henry Wotton.

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1. Natural

   Natural is a song by American band Imagine Dragons, whose members co-wrote the song with Justin Tranter, Klinsmann Lucas S. Bernardo and their producers Mattman & Robin. It was released by Kidinakorner and Interscope Records on July 17, 2018, serving as the lead single from the band's fourth studio album Origins (2018), as well as the seasonal anthem of the 2018 ESPN College Football. It became their fifth number one song on the US Hot Rock Songs chart.

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1. natural

   Natural can be defined as something that exists or occurs in the natural world, as opposed to being made or brought about by humans. It is typically associated with the qualities and characteristics of the physical and biological world that are not created or significantly altered by human intervention. Natural can also refer to something that is genuine, authentic, or innate, often in contrast to something artificial or synthetic. It is frequently used to describe phenomena, substances, processes, or behaviors that have not been modified or manipulated by human activities.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Naturaladjective

   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

2. Naturaladjective

   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

3. Naturaladjective

   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

4. Naturaladjective

   conformed to truth or reality

5. Naturaladjective

   springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc

6. Naturaladjective

   resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural

7. Naturaladjective

   having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings

8. Naturaladjective

   connected by the ties of consanguinity

9. Naturaladjective

   begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child

10. Naturaladjective

    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

11. Naturaladjective

    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

12. Naturaladjective

    produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music

13. Naturaladjective

    of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major

14. Naturaladjective

    applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key

15. Naturalnoun

    a native; an aboriginal

16. Naturalnoun

    natural gifts, impulses, etc

17. Naturalnoun

    one born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot

18. Naturalnoun

    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

19. Etymology: [OE. naturel, F. naturel, fr. L. naturalis, fr. natura. See Nature.]

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1. NATURAL

   Natural is a fourth-generation programming language from Software AG. It is largely used for building databases output in plain text form, for example. It has the ESCAPE TOP flow control instruction, which is similar to continue in C, C++, Java and several other languages, except that it also works within subroutines to both return from the routine and then continue the calling statement's processing loop. Like continue, it avoids large amounts of indentation levels when using nested instruction blocks inside any loop. Example with ESCAPE TOP: The levels of indentation can be automatically adjusted with the STRUCT command in the Natural Editor. The same example, without ESCAPE TOP: Another powerful flow control instruction command is the ESCAPE BOTTOM, which is similar to ESCAPE TOP except that it continues the processing from end of the calling statement's processing loop. Example with ESCAPE BOTTOM: One trait that sets Natural apart from most other languages is its rich syntax. For example, many languages have a simple switch case statement that can be used to replace nested IF statements pertaining to a single variable; in C-like languages, it is prone to logic errors since it is necessary to BREAK out of the statement programatically. Natural has a much cleaner/richer DECIDE statement which is easier to understand and code. Here is an example:

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1. Natural

   nat′ū-ral, adj. pertaining to, produced by, or according to nature: inborn: not far-fetched: not acquired: tender: unaffected: in a state of nature, unregenerate: (math.) having 1 as the base of the system, of a function or number: illegitimate: (mus.) according to the usual diatonic scale.—n. an idiot: (mus.) a character which removes the effect of a preceding sharp or flat: a white key in keyboard musical instruments.—adj. Nat′ural-born, native.—n.pl. Naturā′lia, the sexual organs.—n. Naturalisā′tion.—v.t. Nat′uralise, to make natural or easy: to adapt to a different climate or to different conditions of life: to grant the privileges of natural-born subjects to.—ns. Nat′uralism, mere state of nature: a close following of nature, without idealisation, in painting, sculpture, fiction, &c.: the belief that natural religion is of itself sufficient; Nat′uralist, one who studies nature, more particularly zoology and botany: a believer in naturalism.—adj. Naturalist′ic, pertaining to, or in accordance with, nature: belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.—adv. Nat′urally.—n. Nat′uralness.—Natural history, originally the description of all that is in nature, now used of the sciences that deal with the earth and its productions—botany, zoology, and mineralogy, esp. zoology; Natural law, the sense of right and wrong which arises from the constitution of the mind of man, as distinguished from the results of revelation or legislation; Natural numbers, the numbers 1, 2, 3, and upwards; Natural order, in botany, an order or division belonging to the natural system of classification, based on a consideration of all the organs of the plant; Natural philosophy, the science of nature, of the physical properties of bodies: physics; Natural scale, a scale of music written without sharps or flats; Natural science, the science of nature, as distinguished from that of mind (mental and moral science), and from pure science (mathematics); Natural selection, a supposed operation of the laws of nature, the result of which is the 'survival of the fittest,' as if brought about by intelligent design; Natural system, a classification of plants and animals according to real differences in structure; Natural theology, or Natural religion, the body of theological truths discoverable by reason without revelation.

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1. natural

   According to nature.

   Natural growth of vegetables and flowers is beautiful.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  

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   natural

   Existing within nature.

   It is great to have the natural qualities of love, peace, balance, harmony and unity.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 26, 2020  

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Natural' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #661

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Natural' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1535

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   Rank popularity for the word 'Natural' in Adjectives Frequency: #79

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Natural in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Natural in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Natural in a Sentence

1. Celine Gounder:

   Measles is also pneumonia, brain infection, it's the leading cause of childhood blindness in the world, if you want to do something natural, vaccination is far more natural than if your child ends up on a ventilator or needing antibiotics or if they end up with a brain infection so if you are trying to balance what's the most natural way to take care of your child, I would say measles vaccine is pretty high up there.

2. Cruz Paul:

   Cruz is a natural-born Canadian, he was naturally born there. The question is, can you be natural-born Canadian and natural-born American at the same time? Maybe, but I think the courts will have to decide it, because it's never really been decided.

3. anonymous:

   How come the most natural things in the world are the most difficult to come by....it is the most natural,beautiful, self-enhancing and intoxicatingly breathtaking acts of nature that we humans take for granted at times-as our complexities and complicated human minds do not allow us to act as naturally as we were born to,but turn peace into war,love into suffering,pleasure into pain and the natural into the forgotten!

4. Tom Hart:

   The side benefit of that is U.S. natural gas is the cleanest natural gas in the world, bar none, so you're replacing Russian natural gas that is not held to anywhere near the same standards with gas that's produced very cleanly and safely in the U.S.

5. Petra Nemcova:

   There’s a big gap there between a natural disaster warning and its aftermath, and when first responders leave, many children can wait up to six, eight years to have a safe school … That’s why we developed Smart Response, which helps to address those immediate and long-term needs of communities impacted by natural disasters. We want to build safe schools for children, but we also want to hear the needs of the community and try to help as much as possible. If you just do first response and don’t take any time to rebuild long-term for the community, it’s never going to heal properly … There’s first response, but there needs to be rebuilding long-term. That’s our goal. Petra Nemcova is aware first responders are crucial in delivering clean water, medicine and other supplies immediately after a natural disaster. However, she added long-term revitalization is just as important to ensure healing, all while empowering people to help support their community. And Petra Nemcova has zero plans to ever give up on those who can use some support, wherever they are.

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