natural, ingenuous, naive, unsophisticated, artless mean free from pretension or calculation. natural implies lacking artificiality and self-consciousness and having a spontaneousness suggesting the natural rather than the man-made world. ingenuous implies inability to disguise or conceal one's feelings or intentions.
NATURAL definition: existing in or formed by nature. See examples of natural used in a sentence.
NATURAL meaning: 1. as found in nature and not involving anything made or done by people: 2. A natural ability or…. Learn more.
- of, existing in, or produced by nature: natural science; natural cliffs. 2. in accordance with human nature: it is only natural to want to be liked. 3. as is normal or to be expected; ordinary or logical: the natural course of events. 4. not acquired; innate: a natural gift for sport.
not affected by humans or civilization; uncultivated; wild: in the natural state this animal is not ferocious being or made from organic material; not synthetic: a natural fibre like cotton
Inherited from Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb).
If you say that it is natural for someone to act in a particular way or for something to happen in that way, you mean that it is reasonable in the circumstances.
In a natural manner; = naturally adv. to come natural (usually with to): to be a natural or instinctive action; to be achieved without apparent effort or difficulty.
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