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natural

natural

264 3.0
Having a strong ability for something and needing little practice
  • adjective
  • /ˈnæʧərəl/
translation icon : innato
  • She's a natural.
  • a natural ability
  • a natural talent
  • a natural gift

I had a lot of natural, just fluid talent.

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Examples

  • And but I, I'm a natural born teacher.

  • 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.

  • The man is a natural.

  • You would be a natural.

  • I had a lot of natural, just fluid talent.

  • You guys are both athletes, natural born athletes.

  • It just takes lots of hard work and loads of natural talent.

  • You're a natural, kid.

  • She is a natural when it comes to playing the piano; her skills seem effortless.

Synonyms

innate
vsnatural
52 5.2

A quality present from birth that is not learned

focuses on talents that seem inherited and instinctive
connatural
vsnatural
  • Formal
9.9

Present from birth and natural to a person or animal

is the common modern word for inherited or instinctive talent

Antonyms

learned
  • Specialized
4.4

Gained by experience or training rather than being natural

acquired
  • Specialized
4.1

Not present at birth but learned or developed later

Compounds

natural gas
  • Specialized
140 2.7

A gas from underground that burns to make heat and electricity

natural resources
  • Specialized
47 2.1

Things from nature that people use for energy, food, or money

natural selection
  • Specialized
43 3.9

A process in which plants and animals better suited to their home survive and have more young

natural law
  • Formal
26 6.5

A set of moral rules that come from human nature and apply to everyone

natural habitat
  • Specialized
16 3.2

The place where a plant or animal normally lives and grows

An ability someone is born with to do something well

11 2.2

Light that comes from the sun, not from lamps

A change that happens in the world without human help

10 4.1

The condition of land, water, or wildlife left unchanged by people

natural history
  • Specialized
9 3.8

The study of plants and animals by watching them

A talent someone is born with that they do not learn

natural resource
  • Specialized
8 3.0

A material found in nature that people use, like water or oil

An event in nature not caused by people

A branch of science that studies the physical world, like physics and biology

Giving birth with little medical help and no drugs to reduce pain or help the birth

natural immunity
  • Specialized
4 3.6

The body's protection from disease that a person has naturally without a vaccine or previous infection

The regular way the physical world follows rules not made by people

natural fiber
  • Specialized
3 3.2

A material from plants or animals that people use to make cloth

2 8.4

The study of the physical world and its laws, like early physics

natural language
  • Specialized
2 3.5

A system people use to speak and write to each other rather than computer code

A place where water from underground comes out

1 4.8

A way to avoid pregnancy by not having sex during a woman's fertile days, without using medicine or devices

natural number
  • Specialized
1 3.4

A number used for counting that starts at one and goes up

1 5.3

The way computers understand and work with human language

A thing that exists without people making or changing it

A person who studies plants, animals, and where they live

natural logarithm
  • Specialized
1 5.0

A logarithm that uses the number e, about 2.718, as its base

natural rubber
  • Specialized
1 2.9

An elastic material made from the sticky sap of certain trees used for many products

1 9.5

Study that uses reason and nature to learn about God, not holy books

natural demulcent
  • Specialized
8.1

A substance from nature that soothes irritated skin or throat

A low hollow in the ground that often holds water

natural glass
  • Specialized
6.1

A shiny rock that forms when lava cools very fast

The original color of a person's hair before it is dyed

5.1

A player who moves the ball past opponents with skill and ease

9.9

A salt from Bad Ems mineral waters that treats throat and nose infections

An area of land surrounded by natural features like hills or trees

An ability a person has from birth

natural endowment
  • Specialized
4.9

The natural resources a country has, like land or oil

A program that reads, understands, or writes human language text

6.0

A computer program that understands and produces written or spoken language

natural resin
  • Specialized
4.4

A sticky material some plants make, like amber, that people use in varnish and glue

A person who wakes up early without an alarm

A person who easily convinces other people to agree or act

9.9

A moral quality people can have by nature, not given by God, like justice

The form of something made by nature, not changed by people

A normal relaxed way of speaking that sounds honest

An important English society that supports scientists and promotes science

How Talented

gifted
5 3.5
talented
446 1.0
natural
264 3.0
skilled
172 3.5
competent
114 3.6

Surface Forms

natural positive
naturally positive

Morphology

natural = nature (semi-transparent) = nature + al

The sense 'innately gifted' comes from the idea of something belonging to a person's nature, but it is a semantic extension.

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.