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Definition of Natural

Natural Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, 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. Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death. Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology. Conformed to truth or reality Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc. Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural. Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings. Connected by the ties of consanguinity. Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child. Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate. Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music. Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major. Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key. A native; an aboriginal. Natural gifts, impulses, etc. One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot. A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note. Related Definitions: Aboriginal, Accordance, According, Acquired, Action, Actual, Air, An, And, Animal, Anything, Applied, Are, As, Assumed, At, Base, Be, Begotten, Being, Belonging, Body, Born, But, By, Certain, Character, Characteristic, Child, Color, Commencing, Conformed, Connected, Consanguinity, Consequence, Consonant, Constitution, Contradict, Contrasted, Copied, Course, Creation, Crime, Dealing, Death, Delivery, Derived, Determined, Digressing, Disposition, Distinction, Do, Easy, Effect, Essential, Exaggerated, Exceptional, Existing, Experience, Fixed, Flat, For, Foreign, From, Gesture, Govern, Gravitating, Growth, Harmony, Having, Heat, History, Human, Has, Idiot, Illegitimate, Imitated, In, Instrumental, Is, It, Known, Key, Law, Legitimate, Life, Little, Lower, Major, Man, Matter, Mind, Modulation, Moral, Motion, Music, Native, Natural, Nature, Neither, Nor, Normal, Not, Note, Numbers, Object, Of, On, One, Or, Order, Original, Out, Pertaining, Portrait, Position, Preceded, Produced, Properly, Put, Radii, Reality, Reason, Referred, Regular, Remove, Resembling, Restore, Said, Sanction, Science, Scope, Sentiment, Sharp, Signature, Smooth, Some, Spiritual, Springing, State, Stated, Strength, Supernatural, System, Taken, That, The, Theology, Thing, Those, Throat, Ties, To, Tone, True, Truth, Understanding, Unnatural, Unregenerate, Used, Usual, Violent, Wedlock, Which, Whose, With, Within, Without, World

Natural Quotations If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? Joan Baez Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Francis Bacon All I had was natural ability. Branch Rickey Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. e. e. cummings

Natural Translations natural in Afrikaans is natuurlik natural in Danish is naturlig natural in Dutch is natuurlijk natural in Italian is ovvio, natura secondo natural in Latin is rectus natural in Spanish is natural natural in Swedish is naturlig

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