English Dictionary

natural

/ˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl/

adj

Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned. / Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.

The sunset over the ocean was a breathtaking natural sight.

意味（1）

Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.

The natural Love of Life gave me some inward Motions of Joy.

意味（2）

Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.

The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed.

意味（3）

As expected; reasonable, normal; naturally arising from the given circumstances.

It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays.

意味（4）

Formed by nature; not manufactured or created by artificial processes.

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.

意味（5）

Pertaining to death brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc.

She died of natural causes.

意味（6）

Having an innate ability to fill a given role or profession, or display a specified character.

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.

意味（7）

(mathematics) Designating a standard trigonometric function of an angle, as opposed to the logarithmic function.

意味（8）

(music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.

There's a wrong note here: it should be C natural instead of C sharp.

意味（9）

Containing no artificial or man-made additives; especially (of food) containing no colourings, flavourings or preservatives.

Natural food is healthier than processed food.

意味（10）

Pertaining to a decoration that preserves or enhances the appearance of the original material; not stained or artificially coloured.

意味（11）

Pertaining to a fabric still in its undyed state, or to the colour of undyed fabric.

意味（12）

(dice games) Pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result.

意味（13）

(bodybuilding) Not having used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.

意味（14）

(bridge) Bidding in an intuitive way that reflects one's actual hand.

意味（15）

(algebra) Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.

意味（16）

Having a given status (especially of authority) by virtue of birth.

Whom should he follow but his naturall king.

意味（17）

Related genetically but not legally to one's father; born out of wedlock, illegitimate.

[M]y Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl […] .

意味（18）

Related by birth; genetically related.

The first-born in every house, “from the first-born of the Pharaoh on the throne, to the first-born of the captive in the dungeon,” unaccountably found himself enlisted in the ranks of this new power, and estranged from his natural friends.