Nat.

Adjective

natural (comparative more natural, superlative most natural)

1. Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.
   • The natural Love of Life gave me some inward Motions of Joy.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to IV)

   Synonyms:

   congenital, inborn, connate, connatural, congenite, genetous, inbred, indigenous, ingenite, innate

   Antonyms:

   aberrant, abnormal, artificial

2. Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.
   • The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed.
3. As expected; reasonable, normal; naturally arising from the given circumstances.
   • It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays.

   Synonyms:

   inevitable, necessary, reasonable, ordinary, typical, avoidless, certain, fatal, foregone, impreventable

   Antonyms:

   unexpected, weird, avertable, avoidable, dodgeable, escapable, evadable, evitable, fleeable, nonmandatory

4. Formed by nature; not manufactured or created by artificial processes.
   • The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10

   Synonyms:

   crude, unprocessed, unrefined, raw, coarse, pure, pristine, unalloyed, unmixed, untouched

5. Pertaining to death brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc.
   • She died of natural causes.
6. Having an innate ability to fill a given role or profession, or display a specified character.
   • Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   natural-born

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