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natural in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. being talented through inherited qualities
    "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent"
    natural  born  innate 
  2. unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct
    "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"
    natural  instinctive 
  3. free from artificiality
    "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction"
    lifelike  natural 
  4. in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature
    "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena"
    natural 
  5. 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"
    natural 
  6. existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical
    "a perfectly natural explanation"
    natural 
  7. (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone
    "a natural scale"; "B natural"
    natural 
  8. related by blood; not adopted
    natural 
  9. 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"
    natural 
  10. (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"
    natural  raw  rude 
noun
  1. a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
    natural  cancel 
  2. (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake
    natural 
  3. someone regarded as certain to succeed
    "he's a natural for the job"
    natural 
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