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natural
adjective
1 a natural occurrence:
normal, ordinary, everyday, usual, regular, common, commonplace, typical, routine, standard, established, customary, accustomed, habitual, run-of-the-mill, stock, unexceptional.
antonyms abnormal, unnatural, exceptional.
2 her policy of using fresh, natural produce:
unprocessed, organic, pure, wholesome, unrefined, pesticide-free, chemical-free, additive-free, unbleached, unmixed, real, plain, virgin, crude, raw.
antonyms artificial, refined.
3 Alex is a natural leader:
born, naturally gifted, untaught.
4 his natural instincts:
innate, inborn, inherent, native, native-born, intrinsic, instinctive, instinctual, intuitive, natural-born, ingrained, built-in;
gut;
hereditary, inherited, inbred, congenital;
rare connate, connatural.
antonyms acquired.
5 she's very natural | the conversation was natural and easy:
unaffected, spontaneous, uninhibited, straightforward, relaxed, unselfconscious, genuine, open, artless, guileless, ingenuous, unsophisticated, unpretentious, without airs, easy;
unstudied, unforced, uncontrived, unmannered, unstilted, unconstrained.
antonyms affected, false; stilted, strained; awkward, self-conscious.
6 it was quite natural for him to think she admired him:
reasonable, logical, understandable, unsurprising, expected, (only) to be expected, predictable;
inevitable.
antonyms unreasonable.
7 his natural son:
illegitimate, born out of wedlock;
informal , dated born on the wrong side of the blanket;
archaic bastard, misbegotten, baseborn, spurious;
rare adulterine.
antonyms legitimate.