natural

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   being talented through inherited qualities

   a natural leader

2. 2
   adj

   existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world

   neither supernatural nor magical

3. 3
   adj

   (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone

   a natural scale

4. 4
   adj

   (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes

   natural yogurt

5. 5
   noun

   someone regarded as certain to succeed

   he's a natural for the job

6. 6
   adj

   Existing in nature.

   The natural Love of Life gave me some inward Motions of Joy.

7. 7
   adj

   Pertaining to birth or descent; native.

   Whom should he follow but his naturall king.

8. 8
   noun

   A native inhabitant of a place, country, etc.

   I coniecture and assure my selfe that yee cannot be ignorant by what meanes this peace hath bin thus happily both for our proceedings and the welfare of the Naturals concluded […]

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb). Displaced native Old English ġecynde. By surface analysis, natur(e) + -al.