NATURAL


Meaning of NATURAL in English

n. Function: adjective

1

Synonyms: ILLEGITIMATE 1, baseborn, bastard, fatherless, misbegotten, spurious, supposititious, unfathered

2

Synonyms: INNATE 1, congenital, connate, connatural, inborn, indigenous, inherited, native, unacquired

Antonyms: abnormal, unnatural

3

Synonyms: GENERAL 1, common, commonplace, matter-of-course, normal, prevalent, regular, typic, typical, usual

4

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

Merriam Webster. Collegiate thesaurus English dictionary.      Английский энциклопедический толковый словарь тезауруса.