natural
- adjective
- /ˈnæʧərəl/
- Lauren gave natural birth to both Jack and Max.
- natural mother
- natural family
- natural child
I want free Reader's Digest for all natural born citizens.
- I want free Reader's Digest for all natural born citizens.
- My natural mother was an English girl from West London.
- It's not my it's not my natural genetic inheritance, should we say?
Examples
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We were only his children, the natural by-product of sleeping with women.
Fiction book (1998) -
He has one natural enemy.
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She's a natural mother.
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Natural-born thieves, aren't they?
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I would like to know where the natural mother is in all this mess.
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Since your father died, you are the natural heir to the throne of Genovia.
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Lauren gave natural birth to both Jack and Max.
Synonyms
Related by blood rather than by adoption or marriage
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A process in which plants and animals better suited to their home survive and have more young
Giving birth with little medical help and no drugs to reduce pain or help the birth
- Specialized
The body's protection from disease that a person has naturally without a vaccine or previous infection
- Specialized
A system people use to speak and write to each other rather than computer code
- Specialized
A way to avoid pregnancy by not having sex during a woman's fertile days, without using medicine or devices
- Specialized
The way computers understand and work with human language
- Specialized
An elastic material made from the sticky sap of certain trees used for many products
- Archaic
A salt from Bad Ems mineral waters that treats throat and nose infections
- Specialized
A program that reads, understands, or writes human language text
- Specialized
A computer program that understands and produces written or spoken language
- Specialized
A sticky material some plants make, like amber, that people use in varnish and glue
An important English society that supports scientists and promotes science
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Natural comes from Latin natura meaning 'birth', so a natural parent is a parent by birth rather than by adoption.