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natural

Pronunciation: /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹəl/

The English word “natural” has 20 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.
  2. Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.
  3. As expected; reasonable, normal; naturally arising from the given circumstances.
  4. Formed by nature; not manufactured or created by artificial processes.
  5. Pertaining to death brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc.
  6. Having an innate ability to fill a given role or profession, or display a specified character.
  7. Designating a standard trigonometric function of an angle, as opposed to the logarithmic function.
  8. Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.
  9. Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.
  10. Containing no artificial or man-made additives; especially (of food) containing no colourings, flavourings or preservatives.
  11. Pertaining to a decoration that preserves or enhances the appearance of the original material; not stained or artificially coloured.
  12. Pertaining to a fabric still in its undyed state, or to the colour of undyed fabric.
  13. Pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result.
  14. Not having used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
  15. Uncircumcised; intact.
  16. Bidding in an intuitive way that reflects one's actual hand.
  17. Having a given status (especially of authority) by virtue of birth.
  18. Related genetically but not legally to one's father; born out of wedlock, illegitimate.
  19. Related by birth; genetically related.

noun

  1. A native inhabitant of a place, country, etc.

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.

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