natural
- adjective
- /ˈnæʧərəl/
- She's a natural.
- a natural ability
- a natural talent
- a natural gift
I had a lot of natural, just fluid talent.
- I had a lot of natural, just fluid talent.
- And but I, I'm a natural born teacher.
- I, I love I, I, I'm a natural warrior.
- You know, people just have a natural proclivity for that.
Examples
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And but I, I'm a natural born teacher.
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Many of the members are natural leaders and well-respected by the rest of the school.
Academic text (2013) -
And I have a natural facility to speak.
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The man is a natural.
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You would be a natural.
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I had a lot of natural, just fluid talent.
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You guys are both athletes, natural born athletes.
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It just takes lots of hard work and loads of natural talent.
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You're a natural, kid.
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She is a natural when it comes to playing the piano; her skills seem effortless.
Synonyms
A quality present from birth that is not learned
Present from birth and natural to a person or animal
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
How Talented
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Natural comes from Latin natura 'birth' and is like the word native, so it can describe a talent someone seems to have from birth. That's why we call someone a natural when they are instinctively good at something.