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naturaladjective being such from birth or by naturefrom his first visits to the wading pool, we could tell that our little boy loved water and was a natural swimmer born, congenital chronic, confirmed, habitual, incorrigible, ingrained(also engrained), inveterate, proper, regular, unreconstructed, unregenerateconstitutional, consummateelemental, elementary, essentialconnate, hereditary, inborn, inherent, innate, intimate, intrinsic, nativeinstinctual, intuitive nonnatural cultivated, developed, trainedalien, foreign, unnatural closely resembling the object imitatedthe diorama featuring stuffed birds and plastic plants actually looked very natural lifelike, living, naturalistic(also naturalist), near, photo-realistic, realistic, three-dimensional alike, like, matching, similar, verisimilarakin, analogous, approximate, comparable, resemblingaccurate, close, faithful, truecompelling, convincingexpressive, graphic(also graphical), gritty, vivid nonnatural, nonrealistic, unnatural, unrealistic dissimilar, off, unalike, unlikeincomparable, unmatchedcontrasted, contrasting, different, disparatefake, mock, phony(also phoney), sham being such by blood and not by adoption or marriagean adult adoptee who has decided to search for his natural parents being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thingher natural talent for music first became apparent when, unbidden, she started banging on a toy piano built-in, constitutional, constitutive, essential, hardwired, immanent, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingrain, ingrained(also engrained), inherent, innate, integral, intrinsic, native basic, deep-rooted, elemental, fundamentalcongenital, hereditary, inherited, inmost, inner, interiorinternalcharacteristic, distinctive, peculiarhabitual, inveteratenormal, regular, typical in one's blood adventitious, extraneous, extrinsic alien, foreignaccidental, coincidental, incidentalacquired, adscititioussuperficial, surfaceexterior, external being such as found in nature and not altered by processing or refiningnatural salts are not edible until they are washed and processed crude, native, raw, rude, undressed, unprocessed, unrefined, untreated undevelopedrough-hewn, semifinished, unfinished, unpolisheduncookedimpure, unfiltered in the raw, in the rough dressed, processed, refined, treated filtered, pure, purified existing without human habitation or cultivationphotographs of animals in their natural habitat uncultivated, untamed, virgin, wild nativeuninhabited, unpeopled, unsettledovergrown, spontaneous, untendedwasteundevelopeddesolate, forlorn, howling cultivated, tamed inhabiteddevelopedseminatural free from any intent to deceive or impress othersshe was completely natural in expressing her feelings for him, unafraid of how they would be received artless, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive(or naïve), real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious childlike, dewy-eyed, gee-whiz, impressionable, inexperienced, malleable, persuadable, persuasible, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly, wide-eyedspontaneous, unforced, unstudiedcandid, direct, frank, free, free-spoken, open, openhearted, plain, plainspoken, single-minded, straight, straightforward, unguardedtrustful, trustingexploitable, gullible(also gullable), susceptible, unwary on the level affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony(also phoney), pretentious critical, cynical, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, warycosmopolitan, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wisecivilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refinedcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, devious, double-dealing, hypocritical, manipulative, two-facedarch, calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knavish, scheming, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, subtle, tricky, underhanded, wilyflattering, mealymouthed, smooth, sycophantic, unctuousfeigned, forced, strained relating to or characteristic of human beingsit's only natural to make mistakes—it's part of being human earthborn, human, mortal anthropoid, creatural, hominid, humanlike, humanoid nonhuman angelic(or angelical), divine, godlike, preternatural, superhuman, supernatural, supernormalimmortal, omnipotent, omniscientanimal, beastly, bestial, brute, infrahumaninhuman, robotic, subhuman born to a father and mother who are not marriedhad fathered an unknown number of natural children having, characterized by, or arising from a dignified and generous naturehis late grandfather was as kind and natural a man as one could ever hope to meet big, chivalrous, elevated, gallant, great, greathearted, high, high-minded, lofty, lordly, magnanimous, noble, sublime ennobled, exalted, glorifiedheroic(also heroical), honorable, valiant, venerable, worthyknightly, princely, regalinspiring, moving, numinous, upliftingaugust, magnificent, majestic base, debased, degenerate, degraded, ignoble, low sordid, squalid, vile, wretchedabominable, contemptible, despicable, detestable, hateful, offensive, repulsive, ugly, viciousdastardly, dirty, lousy, sorrylittle, mean, narrow, small-mindeddegrading, discreditable, humiliating, ignominiouscoarse, crude, vulgar not civilizeda natural man, unacquainted with the blessings and burdens of society barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, heathen, heathenish, Neanderthal(or Neandertal), rude, savage, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultivated, wild coarse, crude, primitive, roughuncouth, uncultured civilized cultured, enlightened, humane, sophisticatedgenteel, polished, polite, refined, urbane, well-bredsemicivilized naturalnouna stupid persona character depicted as a natural in the novel as indicated by his unsophisticated speech habits airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, bubblehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clodpoll(or clodpole), clot(British), cluck, clunk, cretin, cuddy(or cuddie, British dialect), deadhead, dim bulb(slang), dimwit, dip, dodo, dolt, donkey, doofus(slang), dope, dork(slang), dullard, dum-dum, dumbbell, dumbhead, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, gander, golem, goof, goon, half-wit, hammerhead, hardhead, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, know-nothing, knucklehead, lamebrain, loggerhead(chiefly dialect), loon, lump, lunkhead, meathead, mome(archaic), moron, mug(chiefly British), mutt, nimrod(slang), nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit(chiefly British), nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull(or numbskull), oaf, pinhead, prat(British), ratbag(chiefly Australian), saphead, schlub(also shlub, slang), schnook(slang), simpleton, stock, stupe, stupid, thickhead, turkey, woodenhead, yahoo, yo-yo booby, buffoon, fool, goose, loony, lunatic, madman, nut, zanylosergawkfeatherbrain, scatterbrainbeast, boor, cad, churl, clown, creep, cur, heel, jerk, skunk, snake, stinker, villain dumb cluck brain, genius egghead, intellect, intellectual, sage, thinker, whiz, wizardpolymath, Renaissance mansharpie(or sharpy) adj.natural, ingenuous, naive, unsophisticated, artless mean free from pretension or calculation.natural implies lacking artificiality and self-consciousness and having a spontaneousness suggesting the natural rather than the man-made world.her unaffected, natural manner ingenuous implies inability to disguise or conceal one's feelings or intentions.the ingenuous enthusiasm of children naive suggests lack of worldly wisdom often connoting credulousness and unchecked innocence.politically naive unsophisticated implies a lack of experience and training necessary for social ease and adroitness.unsophisticated adolescents artless suggests a naturalness resulting from unawareness of the effect one is producing on others.artless charm Cf. regular. in the 14th century |