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That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=
, volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Of or relating to nature.
Without artificial additives.
As expected; reasonable.
* Addison
(music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted .
(music) Produced by natural organs, such as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
(music) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment.
* Macaulay
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
* J. H. Newman
(obsolete) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard.
(of sexual intercourse) Without a condom.
* 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia , Richmond 1957, page 3:
(music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental, or the symbol used to indicate such a note.
One with an innate talent at or for something.
An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
(archaic) One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
* 1597 , , by Shakespeare, Act 2 Scene 4
One's natural life.
* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, page 155:
*:‘Sergeant-Major Robinson came in in the middle of it, and you've never seen a man look more surprised in your natural .’
not derived, not related.
*{{quote-book, year=1742, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6, chapter=, edition=
, passage=If their rights are inherent and underived , they may, by their own suffrages, encircle, with a diadem, the brows of Mr. Cushing. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1859, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Firstly,--if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?" }}
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Surendranath Dasgupta, title=A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Thus it is that though contact of the senses with the objects may later on be imagined to be the conditioning factor, yet the rise of knowledge as well as our notion of its validity strikes us as original, underived , immediate, and first-hand. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=December 2, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=The Sound of German, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=He held that everything in existence is composed of four underived and indestructible substances--fire, water, earth, and air--and that atmosphere is a corporeal substance, not a mere void. }}
Natural is a related term of underived.
As adjectives the difference between natural and underived
is that natural is that exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem while underived is not derived, not related.As a noun natural
is .natural
English
(wikipedia natural)Alternative forms
* naturall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Karen McVeigh
US rules human genes can't be patented, passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}
- His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime.
- What can be more natural than the circumstances in the behaviour of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day?
- the natural motion of a gravitating body
- with strong natural sense, and rare force of will
citation, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
- To leave his wife, to leave his babes, / He wants the natural touch.
- natural friends
- a natural child
Synonyms
* (as expected) inevitable, necessary, reasonable * (without a condom)Antonyms
* (exists in an ecosystem) aberrant, abnormal, artificial * (as expected) aberrant, abnormal, freak, unexpected, unreasonableDerived terms
* naturally * naturalness * natural advantages * natural aging * natural breast * natural business year * natural child * natural childbirth * natural daughter * natural death * natural disaster * natural fiber * natural food * natural frequency * natural gas * natural historian * natural history * natural killer cell * natural language * natural language processing * natural law * natural light * natural logarithm * natural medicine * natural monopoly * natural number * natural philosophy * natural religion * natural resources * natural scale * natural science * natural selection * natural slope * natural son * natural theology * natural virtue * natural wastage * natural world * natural-born * naturalise/naturalize * naturalist * unnaturalNoun
(en noun)- I coniecture and assure my selfe that yee cannot be ignorant by what meanes this peace hath bin thus happily both for our proceedings and the welfare of the Naturals concluded [...].
- He's a natural on the saxophone.
- (Mercutio) [...] this drivelling love is like a great natural , / that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
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