Meaning of natural | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Existing in nature.
2. Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.
3. natural (of or relating to nature)
4. Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.
5. native; indigenous
6. As expected; reasonable, normal; naturally arising from the given circumstances.
7. natural, plain (without artificial additives)
8. natural (as expected; reasonable)
9. Formed by nature; not manufactured or created by artificial processes.
10. Said about the lord that he has vassals, or that by his lineage, he has a right to lordship, even though he was not of the land.
11. Pertaining to death brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc.
12. Having an innate ability to fill a given role or profession, or display a specified character.
13. Designating a standard trigonometric function of an angle, as opposed to the logarithmic function.
14. Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.
15. Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.
16. Containing no artificial or man-made additives; especially (of food) containing no colourings, flavourings or preservatives.
17. Pertaining to a decoration that preserves or enhances the appearance of the original material; not stained or artificially coloured.
18. Pertaining to a fabric still in its undyed state, or to the colour of undyed fabric.
19. Pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result.
20. Not having used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
21. Uncircumcised; intact.
22. Bidding in an intuitive way that reflects one's actual hand.
23. Pertaining to birth or descent; native.
24. Having a given status (especially of authority) by virtue of birth.
25. Related genetically but not legally to one's father; born out of wedlock, illegitimate.
26. Related by birth; genetically related.

Equivalents

Examples

“The natural Love of Life gave me some inward Motions of Joy.”

“With strong natural sense, and rare force of will, he found himself, when first his mind began to open, a fatherless and motherless child, the chief of a great but depressed and disheartened party, and the heir to vast and indefinite pretensions, which excited the dread and aversion of the oligarchy then supreme in the United Provinces.”

“A South African Uber driver is causing excitement with his impressive operatic singing but, however much natural talent you have, it is a long road to La Scala.”

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

“It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays.”

“His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime.”

“What can be more natural or more moving than the circumſtances in which he deſcribes the behaviour of thoſe women who had loſt their huſbands on this fatal day ?”

“The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.”

“She died of natural causes.”

“Cancer patient David Paterson, 81, was close to a natural death when he was suffocated by Heather Davidson, 54, in the bedroom of his care home in North Yorkshire on 11 February.”

“Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.”

“There's a wrong note here: it should be C natural instead of C sharp.”

“Natural food is healthier than processed food.”

“Whom should he follow but his naturall king.”

“I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king, if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me.”

“[M]y Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl […].”

““What! do not you know who Miss Williams is? I am sure you must have heard of her before. She is a relation of the Colonel’s, my dear; a very near relation. We will not say how near, for fear of shocking the young ladies.” Then lowering her voice a little, she said to Elinor, “She is his natural daughter.” “Indeed!” “Oh! yes; and as like him as she can stare. I dare say the Colonel will leave her all his fortune.” Lady Middleton’s delicacy was shocked; an in order to banish so improper a subject as the mention of a natural daughter, she actually took the trouble of saying something herself about the weather.”

“Mrs Taft […] had got it into her head that Mr Lydgate was a natural son of Bulstrode's, a fact which seemed to justify her suspicions of evangelical laymen.”

“Dr Erasmus Darwin set up his two illegitimate daughters as the governesses of a school, noting that natural children often had happier (because less pretentious) upbringings than legitimate.”

“The first-born in every house, “from the first-born of the Pharaoh on the throne, to the first-born of the captive in the dungeon,” unaccountably found himself enlisted in the ranks of this new power, and estranged from his natural friends.”

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