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Natural   /nˈætʃərəl/  /nˈætʃrəl/   Listen
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



... Sylvester's, and Bertie ran up panting, waving his music. "Lucky I've not got to sing," said the young fellow in a jerky voice, and rushed to the vestry-door, where Mr. Clifton fidgeted, watch in hand. After such a race it was natural enough that the young organist should be somewhat flushed as he went up the aisle with a surpliced boy at his heels. But Judith had not hurried—had rather lingered, looking back. What was the meaning ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various
... cocoa industry. The discovery of oil on Trinidad in 1910 added another important export. Independence was attained in 1962. The country is one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean thanks largely to petroleum and natural gas production and processing. Tourism, mostly in Tobago, is targeted for expansion and is growing. The government is coping with ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... the man was so startling, his muttered exclamation—so natural that its profanity never even grated. His eyes seemed to be starting out of his head, his lips were drawn back from his teeth. Blank, unutterable surprise held him, dumb and spellbound, as he stared ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... and lords were possessing themselves of their wives and goods, which was the greatest injury which could be inflicted upon them. They were also reminded of the great favor that God our Lord had granted them in giving them for their king and natural lord the Catholic king Don Phelipe, our sovereign, to maintain them and keep them in peace and justice, with much gentleness and love. Our lord might have deferred the conquest of these islands, and it would have been made by other kings who are not so ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume X, 1597-1599 • E. H. Blair
... that most of them do, as his activity at the theatre later on must have occupied most of his time. But if we had no dates for Mozart's three greater symphonies, we might readily fall into the mistake of attributing them to another year than that of their composition, and the mistake would be natural, if not inevitable, when we consider the enormous amount of music we know Mozart to have written in 1788. In Purcell we find the same terrific, superhuman energy manifested as the day of his death drew near, and perhaps we may ...
— Purcell • John F. Runciman


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