Definitions for the word "natural" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. a.
Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a.
Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. a.
Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. a.
Conformed to truth or reality
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. a.
Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. a.
Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. a.
Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. a.
Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. a.
Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. a.
Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. a.
Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. a.
Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. a.
Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. a.
Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. n.
A native; an aboriginal.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. n.
Natural gifts, impulses, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
17. n.
One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
18. n.
A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
19. adj.
1 a existing in or caused by nature (natural landscape). B uncultivated (in its natural state). 2 in the course of nature (died of natural causes). 3 not surprising; to be expected (natural for her to be upset). 4 unaffected, spontaneous. 5 innate (natural talent for music). 6 not disguised or altered (as by make-up etc.). 7 likely or suited by its or their nature to be such (natural enemies; natural leader). 8 physically existing (the natural world). 9 illegitimate. 10 mus. (of a note) not sharpened or flattened (b natural). n. 1 colloq. (usu. Foll. By for) person or thing naturally suitable, adept, etc. 2 mus. A sign denoting a return to natural pitch. B natural note. naturalness n. [latin: related to *nature]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
20. slang
an idiot, a simpleton. Sometimes HALF-NATURAL.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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