natural

Adjective

• free from artificiality
  • a lifelike pose
    
  • a natural reaction
    

• being talented through inherited qualities
  • a natural leader
    
  • a born musician
    
  • an innate talent
    

• related by blood; not adopted

• (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
  • natural yogurt
    
  • natural produce
    
  • raw wool
    
  • raw sugar
    
  • bales of rude cotton
    

• unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct
  • a cat's natural aversion to water
    
  • offering to help was as instinctive as breathing
    

• (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone
  • a natural scale
    
  • B natural
    

• functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies
  • it's the natural thing to happen
    
  • natural immunity
    
  • a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild
    

• existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical
  • a perfectly natural explanation
    

• existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation
  • a natural pearl
    
  • natural gas
    
  • natural silk
    
  • natural blonde hair
    
  • a natural sweetener
    
  • natural fertilizers
    

• in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature
  • a very natural development
    
  • our natural environment
    
  • natural science
    
  • natural resources
    
  • natural cliffs
    
  • natural phenomena
    

Noun

• (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake

• a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

• someone regarded as certain to succeed
  • he's a natural for the job
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  lifelike , born(p) , innate(p) , raw(a) , rude(a) , instinctive , cancel
• Antonyms: 
  sharp , flat , supernatural , artificial , unreal , unnatural