DICTOMETER

NATURAL

(natural, medfødt, naturlig)

1. Synonyms:
   • Natural
   Definitions:
   • someone regarded as certain to succeed
   Examples:
   • He's a natural for the job
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Natural
   • Cancel
   Definitions:
   • a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Natural
   Definitions:
   • (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Natural
   Definitions:
   • in accordance with nature
   • relating to or concerning nature
   Examples:
   • A very natural development
   • Our natural environment
   • Natural science
   • Natural resources
   • Natural cliffs
   • Natural phenomena
   Antonyms:
   • UNNATURAL
   • violent
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Natural
   Definitions:
   • existing in or produced by nature
   • not artificial or imitation
   Examples:
   • A natural pearl
   • Natural gas
   • Natural silk
   • Natural blonde hair
   • A natural sweetener
   • Natural fertilizers
   Antonyms:
   • ARTIFICIAL
   • arranged, staged
   • bionic
   • bleached, colored, coloured, dyed
   • cardboard, unlifelike
   • celluloid, synthetic
   • conventionalized, conventionalised, stylized, stylised
   • dummy
   • ersatz, substitute
   • factitious
   • fake, false, faux, imitation, simulated
   • man-made, semisynthetic, synthetic
   • near
   • painted
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Natural
   Definitions:
   • existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world
   • neither supernatural nor magical
   Examples:
   • A perfectly natural explanation
   Antonyms:
   • SUPERNATURAL
   • apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual
   • eerie
   • eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly
   • elfin, fey
   • charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, witching(prenominal), wizard(prenominal), wizardly
   • marvelous, marvellous, miraculous
   • metaphysical
   • necromantic
   • nonnatural, otherworldly, preternatural, transcendental
   • talismanic
   • transmundane
   • witchlike
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Natural
   Definitions:
   • functioning or occurring in a normal way
   • lacking abnormalities or deficiencies
   Examples:
   • It's the natural thing to happen
   • Natural immunity
   • A grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild
   Antonyms:
   • Abnormal
   • Unnatural
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Natural
   Definitions:
   • (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone
   Examples:
   • A natural scale
   • B natural
   Antonyms:
   • SHARP
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Natural
   • Instinctive
   Definitions:
   • unthinking
   • prompted by (or as if by) instinct
   Examples:
   • A cat's natural aversion to water
   • Offering to help was as instinctive as breathing
   Antonyms:
   • Induced
   
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Natural
   • Raw
   • Rude
   Definitions:
   • (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
   Examples:
   • Natural yogurt
   • Natural produce
   • Raw wool
   • Raw sugar
   • Bales of rude cotton
   Antonyms:
   • Processed
   
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Natural
   Definitions:
   • related by blood
   • not adopted
   Antonyms:
   • Adoptive
   
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Natural
   • Born
   • Innate
   Definitions:
   • being talented through inherited qualities
   Examples:
   • A natural leader
   • A born musician
   • An innate talent
   Antonyms:
   • Unintelligent
   • Stupid
   
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Lifelike
    • Natural
    Definitions:
    • free from artificiality
    Examples:
    • A lifelike pose
    • A natural reaction
    Antonyms:
    • Affected
    • Unnatural