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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
Researchers were able to uncover traces of natural selection -- signs of genetic adaptation to environmental pressures -- that are undetectable in the DNA of modern Europeans.
In 2022, Duke researchers, backed by the National Institutes of Health, began investigating whether stimulating the vagus nerve could affect SUMOylation and set off a natural anti-inflammatory response that calms immune responses and reduces inflammation.
He had deep knowledge of natural processes such as sedimentation.
The sushi chain also claimed that the movement seen in Lee’s video “may result from natural elasticity or the pressure of chopsticks when applied to its structure.”
Just remember: “Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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