| Main Entry: | natural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | normal, everyday |
Synonyms: |
accustomed, anticipated, characteristic, common, commonplace, congenital, connatural, consistent, constant, counted on, customary, essential, familiar, general, habitual, inborn, indigenous, ingenerate, inherent, innate, instinctive, intuitive, involuntary, legitimate, logical, looked for, matter-of-course, natal, native, ordinary, prevailing, prevalent, probable, reasonable, regular, relied on, spontaneous, typic, typical, unacquired, uncontrolled, uniform, universal, usual |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, different, uncommon, unnatural |
| Main Entry: | natural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open, unaffected |
Synonyms: |
artless, being oneself, candid, childlike, credulous, direct, easy, folksy, forthright, frank, genuine, homey, ignorant, impulsive, inartificial, ingenuous, innocent, instinctive, laid-back*, naive, plain, primitive, provincial, real, rustic, simple, simplehearted, sincere, spontaneous, straightforward, trusting, unassumed, uncontrived, undesigning, unembarrassed, unfeigned, unforced, unlabored, unpolished, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly, up-front |
Antonyms: |
affected, artificial, pretended, unnatural |
| Main Entry: | natural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | organic, unrefined |
Synonyms: |
agrarian, agrestal, crude, native, plain, pure, raw, unbleached, uncultivated, undomesticated, unmixed, unpolished, unprocessed, whole, wild |
Antonyms: |
artificial, fixed, modified, refined, unnatural |
| Main Entry: | agrarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning land, farming |
Synonyms: |
agricultural, natural, peasant, rural, rustic, uncultivated, undomesticated |
| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beastlike; carnal |
Synonyms: |
beastly, bestial, bodily, brute, brutish, corporeal, earthly, earthy, feral, fleshy, mammalian, muscular, natural, physical, sensual, untamed, wild, zoological |
| Main Entry: | artless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple |
Synonyms: |
direct, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, open, plain, pure, sincere, straight, straightforward, talking turkey, true, unadorned, unaffected, uncontrived, unpretentious, unsophisticated, up front |
Antonyms: |
artful, complicated, contrived, pretentious, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | automatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | done by habit |
Synonyms: |
autogenetic, habitual, impulsive, instinctive, instinctual, intuitive, involuntary, knee-jerk, mechanical, natural, perfunctory, reflex, routine, spontaneous, unconscious, unforced, unintentional, unmeditated, unthinking, unwilled |
Antonyms: |
thought-out |
| Main Entry: | bastard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegitimate |
Synonyms: |
adulterated, baseborn, counterfeit, fake, false, imperfect, impure, inferior, irregular, misbegotten, misborn, mixed, mongrel, natural, phony, sham, spurious, suppositious, ungenuine |
Antonyms: |
legitimate |
| Main Entry: | bodily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning animate structure |
Synonyms: |
actual, animal, carnal, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, gross, human, material, natural, normal, organic, physical, sensual, somatic, substantial, tangible, unspiritual |
Antonyms: |
mental, soulful, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | born |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innate |
Synonyms: |
built-in, congenital, constitutional, deep-seated, essential, inborn, inbred, ingenerate, inherent, intrinsic, natural |
| Notes: | born means brought into existence while borne means carried or transported |