naturally
- adverb
- /ˈnæʧərəli/
- When you announced you were coming to lunch, I naturally assumed you wanted something.
- follows naturally
- naturally leads
- quite naturally
I think that naturally everyone wants to be liked.
- I think that naturally everyone wants to be liked.
- So naturally when that happened, I couldn't help myself.
- So naturally, we got goggles and we went down and we got them.
- But when you when you when you're writing it, you will naturally be building in new opportunities.
- But some links, curious minds naturally is LinkedIn the description.
- Yeah, I I think naturally it's we're talking about Rod Brooks.
- So that is something that you that that just happens naturally because it's required.
- And the worry is naturally probably that space is bigger, first of all.
- And so you naturally believed her context.
- So, so just very naturally it arises that job is not priority.
Examples
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The options available to Canada's new federal government are naturally more limited.
Academic text (2017) -
The semester ends, naturally, with a concert of the students' newly composed music.
Academic text (2011) -
I think that naturally everyone wants to be liked.
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Would you expect something like that to happen naturally on the TV side?
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Our survival rate is somewhere around point four percent, and we naturally want to improve that.
Fiction book (1990) -
The next question was, naturally, why would anyone choose to freeze themselves, let alone just their head?
Academic text (2011) -
American officials quite naturally tend to act as if the world were unipolar.
Academic text (1999) -
So people naturally gravitate toward those kinds of beliefs.
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Often, conversation strayed from the guide, and discussion naturally flowed from topic to topic.
Academic text (2015) -
It is naturally expected that children will ask questions about the world around them.
Synonyms
To show something is obvious and to say yes or give permission
In the usual way that people expect
In the normal way people expect in that situation
In a way people expect
In a way people expect to happen
As most people thought would happen
In a way people thought would happen
In a way that is natural or expected
Antonyms
Compounds
How Expected
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word naturally comes from nature, a word that originally meant 'birth' or 'the natural world'. So when we say something happened naturally in the sense 'as might be expected', it is like saying it happened the way nature would do it.