Natural

/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹəl/ · adjective

Meaning

Existing in nature..

Definitions by Sense

1. Existing in nature.
2. Pertaining to birth or descent; native.
3. (now rare) A native inhabitant of a place, country, etc.
4. (music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental.
5. (music) The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.
6. One with an innate talent at or for something.
7. (uncountable) An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
8. (archaic) One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.

Example Sentences

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 […]

He's a natural on the saxophone.

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.

"Why you are a natural! I thought you had learned something by this time.

‘Sergeant-Major Robinson came in in the middle of it, and you've never seen a man look more surprised in your natural.’

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.

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• more natural
• most natural
• naturall
• nat'ral
• naturals

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