natural

Meanings

Adjective

• That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.
• Of or relating to nature.
• Without artificial additives.
• As expected; reasonable.
• Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.
• Produced by natural organs, such as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
• Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
• Having 1 as the base of the system, of a function or number.
• Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment.
• Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
• Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
• Related genetically but not legally to one's father; born out of wedlock, illegitimate.
• Without a condom.
• Not having suffered the use of anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
• Bidding in an intuitive way that reflects one's actual hand.
• Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.

Noun

• A native inhabitant of a place, country etc.
• A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental.
• 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.
• One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
• One's natural life.
• A hairstyle for people with Afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.
• A breast which have not been modified.
• A roll of two dice with a score of 7 or 11 on the comeout roll.

Adverb

• Naturally; in a natural manner.

Related

Opposite words

• aberrant, abnormal, artificial
• processed
• conventional

Origin

• From Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor.