n. Function: adjective
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Synonyms: ILLEGITIMATE 1, baseborn, bastard, fatherless, misbegotten, spurious, supposititious, unfathered
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Synonyms: INNATE 1, congenital, connate, connatural, inborn, indigenous, inherited, native, unacquired
Antonyms: abnormal, unnatural
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Synonyms: GENERAL 1, common, commonplace, matter-of-course, normal, prevalent, regular, typic, typical, usual
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Synonyms: WILD 1, agrarian, agrestal, native, uncultivated, undomesticated
5 free from pretension or calculation FF1C; he spoke in a perfectly natural manner FF1E;
Synonyms: artless, guileless, inartificial, ingenuous, innocent, naive, simple, simplehearted, unaffected, unartful, unartificial, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, untutored, unworldly; compare GENUINE 3
Related Words: impulsive, instinctive, spontaneous; easy, unlabored; constitutional, ingrained, inherent; folksy, homespun, unpretentious; ignorant, primitive, undesigning; unconstrained, unembarrassed; candid, frank, open, plain; sincere, unfeigned; provincial, rustic
Contrasted Words: ceremonial, ceremonious, conventional, formal; ostentatious, pretentious, showy; assumed, contrived, counterfeited, feigned, pretended; artful, sophisticated, studied
Antonyms: affected; artificial, unnatural