English Explanatory Dictionary

natural

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Existing in nature.
  2. Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.
  3. Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.
  4. As expected; reasonable, normal; naturally arising from the given circumstances.
  5. Formed by nature; not manufactured or created by artificial processes.
  6. Pertaining to death brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc.
  7. Having an innate ability to fill a given role or profession, or display a specified character.
  8. Designating a standard trigonometric function of an angle, as opposed to the logarithmic function.
  9. Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.
  10. Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.
  11. Containing no artificial or man-made additives; especially (of food) containing no colourings, flavourings or preservatives.
  12. Pertaining to a decoration that preserves or enhances the appearance of the original material; not stained or artificially coloured.
noun
  1. A native inhabitant of a place, country, etc.
  2. A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental.
  3. The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.
  4. One with an innate talent at or for something.
  5. An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
  6. One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
  7. One's life.
  8. A hairstyle for people with Afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.
  9. A breast which has not been modified by plastic surgery.
  10. Someone who has not used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing substances.
  11. A roll of two dice with a score of 7 or 11 on the comeout roll.
adv
  1. Naturally; in a natural manner.

Pronunciation

năchʹ(ə)rəl /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-natural.wav en-us-natural.ogg /ˈnatʃ(ʊ)rəl/ /ˈnetʃ(ʊ)rəl/

Word forms

natural more natural most natural naturall nat'ral naturals

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.

Synonyms

congenital inborn connate connatural congenite genetous inbred indigenous ingenite innate native natural to the manner born unlearned unlearnt aboriginal autochthonal autochthonous endemic inlandish inevitable necessary reasonable ordinary typical avoidless certain fatal foregone impreventable ineluctable inescapable inexorable irresistible predictable unavoidable unforestallable unescapable unpreventable average medial basic bog-standard common commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent consistent conventional customary everyday expected garden variety improminent mundane normal par for the course plain plain vanilla

Antonyms

aberrant abnormal artificial unexpected weird avertable avoidable dodgeable escapable evadable evitable fleeable nonmandatory nonobligatory optional preventable preventible resistible skippable alien anomalous as queer as Dick's hatband bizarre booky curious deviant discrepant eerie eldritch errant exceptional extraordinary fey forby freak freakish freaky fremd funny heteroclite hinky incongruous incongruitous irregular kooky monstrous nonstandard odd outlandish out of the ordinary outré peculiar quaint queer queer as a clockwork orange queer as a nine bob note queer as a three dollar bill queer as a coot queer as Dick's hatband rare

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

Translations

Finnish: luonnollinen Finnish: luonnonmukainen Finnish: luomu- Finnish: lisäaineeton Finnish: vokaalinen Finnish: luonnonvalkoinen Finnish: luonnonvärinen Russian: приро́дный Russian: есте́ственный Russian: натура́льный Albanian: natyral Albanian: natyror Arabic: طَبِيعِيّ Armenian: բնական Azerbaijani: təbii Bashkir: тәбиғи Belarusian: прыро́дны Belarusian: натура́льны Bulgarian: природе́н Bulgarian: есте́ствен Catalan: natural Chinese Mandarin: 自然的 Czech: přírodní Danish: naturlig Dutch: natuurlijk Esperanto: natura Estonian: looduslik Estonian: loomulik French: naturel Galician: natural Georgian: ბუნებრივი German: natürlich German: naturfarben German: naturfarbig Greek: φυσικός Ancient Greek: φυσικός Haitian Creole: natirel Hebrew: טִבְעִי Hindi: प्राकृतिक Hungarian: természeti Hungarian: természetes Ido: naturala Indonesian: alami Interlingua: natural Irish: nádúrtha Italian: naturale Japanese: 自然な Japanese: 天然の Kazakh: табиғи Korean: 자연의 Korean: 자연스럽다 Latin: nātūrālis Latvian: dabīgs Latvian: dabisks Macedonian: при́роден Macedonian: е́стествен Macedonian: неутра́лен Malay: semulajadi Māori: urutapu Māori: parakore Norwegian Bokmål: naturlig Bulgarian: бекар Catalan: becaire Dutch: herstellingsteken Estonian: bekarr Finnish: palautusmerkki French: bécarre Galician: becuadro Greek: αναίρεση Hungarian: feloldójel Hungarian: előjegyzés nélküli hang Italian: bequadro Latvian: bekars Portuguese: bequadro Russian: бека́р Spanish: becuadro Swedish: återställningstecken
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