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natural
adjective as in normal, everyday
Strongest matches
common, essential, innate, instinctive, legitimate, logical, ordinary, reasonable, usual
Strong matches
characteristic, commonplace, constant, familiar, general, natal, native, probable, regular, uniform, universal
Weak matches
accustomed, anticipated, congenital, connatural, consistent, counted on, customary, habitual, inborn, indigenous, ingenerate, inherent, intuitive, involuntary, looked-for, matter-of-course, prevailing, prevalent, relied on, spontaneous, typic, typical, unacquired, uncontrolled
adjective as in open, unaffected
Strongest matches
easy, genuine, instinctive, real, simple
Weak matches
artless, being oneself, candid, childlike, credulous, direct, folksy, forthright, homey, ignorant, impulsive, inartificial, ingenuous, laid-back, naive, simplehearted, sincere, spontaneous, straightforward, trusting, unassumed, uncontrived, undesigning, unembarrassed, unfeigned, unforced, unlabored, unpolished, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly, up-front
adjective as in organic, unrefined
Weak matches
agrarian, agrestal, unbleached, uncultivated, undomesticated, unmixed, unpolished, unprocessed
Example Sentences
Because natural compounds often exist in only tiny quantities, they can be difficult and expensive to produce in the laboratory.
Though incredibly small, coccolithophores are among Earth’s most effective natural carbon regulators.
In this volume, we find acrimony aplenty during the move from one marriage to the next, yet Updike’s tenderness, a natural instinct for conciliation, always re-emerges.
More crucially, they are tiny examples of our natural drive to shape and reshape the earth and link the places that matter to us.
These enhanced assistants aim to offer more natural conversations, automation through verbal commands, and—via Amazon’s Ring—a feature for finding lost dogs.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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