naturaladj/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹəl/

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  Existing in nature.

  • 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.
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  Existing in nature.

  • The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed.
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  Existing in nature.

  • It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays.
  • His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime.
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  Existing in nature.

  • 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.
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  Existing in nature.

  • 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.
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  Existing in nature.

  • 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.
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  mathematicssciencesExisting in nature.

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  algebramathematicssciencesExisting in nature.

naturalnoun/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹəl/

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  archaicA native inhabitant of a place, country, etc.

  • I coniecture and assure my selfe that yee cannot be ignorant by what meanes this peace hath bin thus happily both for our proceedings and the welfare of the Naturals concluded […]
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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental.

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  entertainmentlifestylemusicThe symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.

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  One with an innate talent at or for something.

  • He's a natural on the saxophone.
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  An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.

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  archaicOne with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.

  • Why is not this better now, then groning for Loue, now art thou ſociable, now art thou Romeo : now art thou what thou art, by Art as well as by Nature, for this driueling Loue is like a great Naturall, that runs lolling vp and downe to hid his bable in a hole.
  • A Noble-man tooke a great liking to a naturall, and had covenanted with his parents to take him from them and to keepe him for his pleaſure, and demanding of the Ideot if he would ſerve him, he made him this anſwere, My Father ſaith he, got me to be his foole of my mother, now if you long to have a foole; go & without doubt you may get one of your owne wife.
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  One's life.

  • ‘Sergeant-Major Robinson came in in the middle of it, and you've never seen a man look more surprised in your natural.’
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  A hairstyle for people with Afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.

  • Chinosole, who stopped straightening her hair and cut it into a natural while at a predominantly white college, was quite uneasy with the style
  • I wanted to do it for so long — throw out my chemically relaxed hair for a natural.

naturaladv/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹəl/

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  dialectalNaturally; in a natural manner.

  • Dr. Watson, on the other hand, spoke natural.
  • "If the doctor hadn't been sure she was strangled you'd have sworn she died natural."