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Natural
NATURAL, a. [to be born or produced]
1. Pertaining to nature; produced or effected by nature, or by the laws of growth, formation or motion impressed on bodies or beings by divine power. Thus we speak of the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color; natural beauty. In this sense, natural is opposed to artificial or acquired.
2. According to the stated course of things. Poverty and shame are the natural consequences of certain vices.
3. Not forced; not far fetched; such as is dictated by nature. The gestures of the orator are natural.
4. According to the life; as a natural representation of the face.
5. Consonant to nature.
Fire and warmth go together, and so seem to carry with them as natural an evidence as self-evident truths themselves.
6. Derived from nature, as opposed to habitual. The love of pleasure is natural ; the love of study is usually habitual or acquired.
7. Discoverable by reason; not revealed; as natural religion.
8. Produced or coming in the ordinary course of things, or the progress or animals and vegetables; as a natural death; opposed to violent or premature.
9. Tender; affectionate by nature.
10. Unaffected; unassumed; according to truth and reality.
What can be more natural than the circumstances of the behavior of those women who had lost heir husbands on this fatal day?
11. Illegitimate; born out of wedlock; as a natural son.
12. Native; vernacular; as ones natural language.
13. Derived from the study of the works or nature; as natural knowledge.
14. A natural note, in music, is that which is according to the usual order of the scale; opposed to flat and sharp notes, which are called artificial.
Natural history, in its most extensive sense, is the description of whatever is created, or of the whole universe, including the heavens and the earth, and all the productions of the earth. But more generally, natural history is limited to a description of the earth and its productions, including zoology, botany, geology, mineralogy, meteorology, _ c.
Natural philosophy, the science of material natural bodies, of their properties, powers and motions. It is distinguished from intellectual and moral philosophy, which respect the mind or understanding of man and the qualities of actions. Natural philosophy comprehends mechanics, hydrostatics, optics, astronomy, chimistry, magnetism, eletricity, galvanism, _ c.
NATURAL, n.
1. An idiot; one born without the usual powers of reason or understanding. This is probably elliptical for natural fool.
2. A native; an original inhabitant.
3. Gift of nature; natural quality.
natural appears in definitions for these words:
A Abased Ability Abortion Abound Abstract Abuse Accelerate Accessory Accord Accretion Acephalous Acorn Acorus Acquired Acquirement Action Adhere Adjunct Adnata Adonists Adopt Adoption Adultery Affect Affectation Affected Affection Agency Aggravation Agouty Albino Alien Aliment Alimental Alimentary Allegiance Alosa Alveole Americanize Amphiscil Analysis Anastrophe Anatomical Ancestry Android Angelic Animate Anise Anthropolite Anthropology Anticipation Antipathetic Antipathy Aporia Apparel Appetite Aptitude Armillary Artful Arthrodia Artificial Artlessly Asperifoliate Assimilation Association Assonant Aurelia Awake Awakened Backwards Badness Bald Ball Bastard Bath Be Begrime Bennet Bind Biotina Blind Blood Blood-hot Botany Boulet Bound Bow Break Breislakite Brimstone Brook Brotherly Bruise But Can Canal Capacitate Capacity Carnal Carnation Carnivorous Caruncle Cascade Casuistry Catachrestical Catheter Causey Cave Cavern Cavin Cede Centripetal Cetologist Cetology Change Charact Charity Chimistry Chroastaces Chromatics Circumscription Circumspection Circumstance Cistern Citizen Civil Civilly Class Cleavage Cleave Clog Co-operate Coadunate Coalescence Cognation Cohere Coherence Cohesion Comatose Combine Common Communion Complexion Conchologist Concrement Concrete Concretion Condensation Condor Congenial Congeniality Congenialness Connatural Connaturality Connaturalness Consequent Conserve Consideration Constitutional Constitutionality Construe Construed Construing Consult Contortion Contrive Coralline Corcelet Cord Cordate Cordated Corrupt Corruption Counselor Countenance Counter-natural Countermark Course Craze Crested Critic Cross Crude Crudeness Crush Crystalization Dead Deaden Deadness Defect Deform Deformed Deforming Degenerate Degenerateness Degeneration Deism Deluge Demise Dendrology Denizen Deobstruent Dependence Derivation Derive Desert Desultory Devastation Diallage Diastoly Die Diminish Dimple Disability Disable Disagreeable Discolor Disease Disenable Disgustful Disjoint Dislodge Disnatured Disorder Dispensation Dispersion Disposition Disqualify Dissolution Distain Distant Distort Distorted Distortion Divination Dot Double-shade Druid Dry Duteous Dutiful Duty Dwarf Earthnut Echinus Eclogue Effect Effervesce Egestion Eject Elasticity Element Elongation Embolismal Embrace Embroidery Empower Endemic Endenizen Endowment Enfouldered Epigram Episode Epizootic Erpetologist Erpetology Escheat Evacuant Evacuation Evil Excremental Exculpate Experiment Expression Exsude Extreme Exult Faculty Fair Family Far-fetched Father Faunist Felspar Fether Feud Filament Filial Finiteness Fish Fissile Flame Flare Flint Flourish Flyfishing Fool For Forcing Foreign Foreigner Fount Freckle Frigid Frigidity Frozen Genealogy Generation Genial Genially Genius Genuine Genuinely Genus Geognosy Glade Good-nature Good-natured Gorgonean Government Grace Gracefully Gracefulness Grain Grammar Green Griffon Grot Grotesque Grove Grow Gum-resin Gut Harmony Have Hawthorn Heal Health Helminthologist Helminthology Hernia Herpetologist Herpetology High-spirited Hill Himself History Hole Hollow Homeborn Homebred Hour Hydrodynamics Hyperbate I Idiocy Idioelectric Idiot Imbecility Imitation Imitative Immature Immaturely Impotence Improvement Impulse Inalienable Inbred Incapability Incapableness Incapacitate Incapacity Inclination Incompetence Increase Indenization Indigenous Indigestion Indisposition Indissolvable Influence Inherent Innate Innately Innocent Inofficious Insinuation Instinct Instinctive Instinctively Integument Intervention Inversion Invertent Investigate Ionic Irregular Kind Kindliness Kingdom Lac Lameness Latitude Law Laziness Lazy Leisure Letter Liberty Lichen Lichenography Life Limitation Literally Lithology Lithophyte Lithotome Liverwort Loam Logarithm Lomentaceous Lothe Love Low Luxuriation Magic Major Make Manacle Mandrake Manganese Manna Marvelous Mature Mechanically Metaphysics Method Methodic Methodically Mineral Mineralization Miraculous Misery Mocha-stone Modesty Modulate Molder Molting Molybdenum Monopoly Monster Moral Moss Mother Multiplication Multiply Mummy Mushroom Native Natively Natural Naturalist Naturalization Naturalize Naturally Naturalness Naturals Nature Negative Night Nomadize Nothing Nutriment Obliterate Obstruent Obviously Oculist Of Omission Ophiologist Ophiology Order Ordination Ore Organ Ornithologist Oryctography Overgrow Palm Parenthesis Pennached Perfection Perforation Phalanx Phenomenon Philosophy Physical Physically Physico-logic Physico-theology Physics Physiography Picturesk Piously Pissasphalt Plague Play Plot Pneumatics Populate Port Positive Positively Posture Powder Power Precocious Premature Prematureness Preternatural Propagable Propension Proper Property Prose Prostration Pseudo-tinea Pseudomorphous Pupa Put Putrefaction Pyrology Pyrophane Qualification Quality Quintessence Raw Reach React Reason Rebate Recitative Reconciliation Reduction Redundant Refer Refract Regenerate Regeneration Relish Remedy Renew Renverse Reproduction Resolution Restrain Result Retention Revertent Revive Rhapsody Right Rigid Rock-salt Rokambole Rompu Rosemary Rot Rotten Rudiment Ruin Ruminate Run Runt Sad Sarcocele Sate Satiate Satisfy Saturation Scenery Science Scitamineous Season Sedition Selfishly Semination Sense Separate Septical Series Set Settle Shiver Sickness Signature Skeleton Skin Sleep Sluggishness Smile Society Species Specuation Spinozism Spiritualization Spiritualize Spring Stain Stature Stiff Stiffness Stop Strait Strength Striae Subject Subordination Subside Superadd Supernatural Supersede Suppuration Swelling Symbol Sympathy Symphysis Tabernacle Tacit Take Talent Talk Temperance Tender Tenor Terminology That Then Theology Theurgy Thin Tone Touch Transform Transition Transpose Transposing Transposition Trave Tribe Trivial Trochite Tumor Tunic Tunicle Turban-shell Turgid Turgidness Turpentine Type Typolite Umber Unaffected Unconverted Under Unforced Ungenial Unhumbled Unkindness Unlabored Unnative Unnatural Unnaturalize Unnaturalized Unnaturally Unseasoned Unstrained Unstudied Untimely Untransposed Untroubled Variety Vermeology Vermil Violent Vivificate Volute Walk Warrant Wash Water Well-water White-vitriol Whitewood Wisdom Wit Witchcraft Wood-cockshell Wood-engraving Worm Wrest Xylography Zoologist Zoology Zoophyte Zoophytology
A Abased Ability Abortion Abound Abstract Abuse Accelerate Accessory Accord Accretion Acephalous Acorn Acorus Acquired Acquirement Action Adhere Adjunct Adnata Adonists Adopt Adoption Adultery Affect Affectation Affected Affection Agency Aggravation Agouty Albino Alien Aliment Alimental Alimentary Allegiance Alosa Alveole Americanize Amphiscil Analysis Anastrophe Anatomical Ancestry Android Angelic Animate Anise Anthropolite Anthropology Anticipation Antipathetic Antipathy Aporia Apparel Appetite Aptitude Armillary Artful Arthrodia Artificial Artlessly Asperifoliate Assimilation Association Assonant Aurelia Awake Awakened Backwards Badness Bald Ball Bastard Bath Be Begrime Bennet Bind Biotina Blind Blood Blood-hot Botany Boulet Bound Bow Break Breislakite Brimstone Brook Brotherly Bruise But Can Canal Capacitate Capacity Carnal Carnation Carnivorous Caruncle Cascade Casuistry Catachrestical Catheter Causey Cave Cavern Cavin Cede Centripetal Cetologist Cetology Change Charact Charity Chimistry Chroastaces Chromatics Circumscription Circumspection Circumstance Cistern Citizen Civil Civilly Class Cleavage Cleave Clog Co-operate Coadunate Coalescence Cognation Cohere Coherence Cohesion Comatose Combine Common Communion Complexion Conchologist Concrement Concrete Concretion Condensation Condor Congenial Congeniality Congenialness Connatural Connaturality Connaturalness Consequent Conserve Consideration Constitutional Constitutionality Construe Construed Construing Consult Contortion Contrive Coralline Corcelet Cord Cordate Cordated Corrupt Corruption Counselor Countenance Counter-natural Countermark Course Craze Crested Critic Cross Crude Crudeness Crush Crystalization Dead Deaden Deadness Defect Deform Deformed Deforming Degenerate Degenerateness Degeneration Deism Deluge Demise Dendrology Denizen Deobstruent Dependence Derivation Derive Desert Desultory Devastation Diallage Diastoly Die Diminish Dimple Disability Disable Disagreeable Discolor Disease Disenable Disgustful Disjoint Dislodge Disnatured Disorder Dispensation Dispersion Disposition Disqualify Dissolution Distain Distant Distort Distorted Distortion Divination Dot Double-shade Druid Dry Duteous Dutiful Duty Dwarf Earthnut Echinus Eclogue Effect Effervesce Egestion Eject Elasticity Element Elongation Embolismal Embrace Embroidery Empower Endemic Endenizen Endowment Enfouldered Epigram Episode Epizootic Erpetologist Erpetology Escheat Evacuant Evacuation Evil Excremental Exculpate Experiment Expression Exsude Extreme Exult Faculty Fair Family Far-fetched Father Faunist Felspar Fether Feud Filament Filial Finiteness Fish Fissile Flame Flare Flint Flourish Flyfishing Fool For Forcing Foreign Foreigner Fount Freckle Frigid Frigidity Frozen Genealogy Generation Genial Genially Genius Genuine Genuinely Genus Geognosy Glade Good-nature Good-natured Gorgonean Government Grace Gracefully Gracefulness Grain Grammar Green Griffon Grot Grotesque Grove Grow Gum-resin Gut Harmony Have Hawthorn Heal Health Helminthologist Helminthology Hernia Herpetologist Herpetology High-spirited Hill Himself History Hole Hollow Homeborn Homebred Hour Hydrodynamics Hyperbate I Idiocy Idioelectric Idiot Imbecility Imitation Imitative Immature Immaturely Impotence Improvement Impulse Inalienable Inbred Incapability Incapableness Incapacitate Incapacity Inclination Incompetence Increase Indenization Indigenous Indigestion Indisposition Indissolvable Influence Inherent Innate Innately Innocent Inofficious Insinuation Instinct Instinctive Instinctively Integument Intervention Inversion Invertent Investigate Ionic Irregular Kind Kindliness Kingdom Lac Lameness Latitude Law Laziness Lazy Leisure Letter Liberty Lichen Lichenography Life Limitation Literally Lithology Lithophyte Lithotome Liverwort Loam Logarithm Lomentaceous Lothe Love Low Luxuriation Magic Major Make Manacle Mandrake Manganese Manna Marvelous Mature Mechanically Metaphysics Method Methodic Methodically Mineral Mineralization Miraculous Misery Mocha-stone Modesty Modulate Molder Molting Molybdenum Monopoly Monster Moral Moss Mother Multiplication Multiply Mummy Mushroom Native Natively Natural Naturalist Naturalization Naturalize Naturally Naturalness Naturals Nature Negative Night Nomadize Nothing Nutriment Obliterate Obstruent Obviously Oculist Of Omission Ophiologist Ophiology Order Ordination Ore Organ Ornithologist Oryctography Overgrow Palm Parenthesis Pennached Perfection Perforation Phalanx Phenomenon Philosophy Physical Physically Physico-logic Physico-theology Physics Physiography Picturesk Piously Pissasphalt Plague Play Plot Pneumatics Populate Port Positive Positively Posture Powder Power Precocious Premature Prematureness Preternatural Propagable Propension Proper Property Prose Prostration Pseudo-tinea Pseudomorphous Pupa Put Putrefaction Pyrology Pyrophane Qualification Quality Quintessence Raw Reach React Reason Rebate Recitative Reconciliation Reduction Redundant Refer Refract Regenerate Regeneration Relish Remedy Renew Renverse Reproduction Resolution Restrain Result Retention Revertent Revive Rhapsody Right Rigid Rock-salt Rokambole Rompu Rosemary Rot Rotten Rudiment Ruin Ruminate Run Runt Sad Sarcocele Sate Satiate Satisfy Saturation Scenery Science Scitamineous Season Sedition Selfishly Semination Sense Separate Septical Series Set Settle Shiver Sickness Signature Skeleton Skin Sleep Sluggishness Smile Society Species Specuation Spinozism Spiritualization Spiritualize Spring Stain Stature Stiff Stiffness Stop Strait Strength Striae Subject Subordination Subside Superadd Supernatural Supersede Suppuration Swelling Symbol Sympathy Symphysis Tabernacle Tacit Take Talent Talk Temperance Tender Tenor Terminology That Then Theology Theurgy Thin Tone Touch Transform Transition Transpose Transposing Transposition Trave Tribe Trivial Trochite Tumor Tunic Tunicle Turban-shell Turgid Turgidness Turpentine Type Typolite Umber Unaffected Unconverted Under Unforced Ungenial Unhumbled Unkindness Unlabored Unnative Unnatural Unnaturalize Unnaturalized Unnaturally Unseasoned Unstrained Unstudied Untimely Untransposed Untroubled Variety Vermeology Vermil Violent Vivificate Volute Walk Warrant Wash Water Well-water White-vitriol Whitewood Wisdom Wit Witchcraft Wood-cockshell Wood-engraving Worm Wrest Xylography Zoologist Zoology Zoophyte Zoophytology
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