EGAVE

natural

About 125.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Existing in nature. Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed.
  2. adjective Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  3. adjective Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.
    The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed.
  4. adjective As expected; reasonable, normal; naturally arising from the given circumstances.
    It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays.
  5. adjective Formed by nature; not manufactured or created by artificial processes.
  6. adjective Pertaining to death brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc.
    She died of natural causes.
  7. adjective Having an innate ability to fill a given role or profession, or display a specified character.
  8. adjective Designating a standard trigonometric function of an angle, as opposed to the logarithmic function. Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.

Similar words

inborn innate born primitive connatural inbred instinctual instinctive normal fresh

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Word family

naturalness naturalnesses naturals

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