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| Main Entry: | natural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | normal, everyday |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, anticipated, characteristic, common, commonplace, congenital, consistent, constant, customary, essential, familiar, general, habitual, inborn, indigenous, inherent, innate, instinctive, intuitive, involuntary, legitimate, logical, native, ordinary, prevailing, prevalent, probable, reasonable, regular, spontaneous, typical, uncontrolled, uniform, universal, usual, connatural, counted on, ingenerate, looked for, matter-of-course, natal, relied on, typic, unacquired |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, different, uncommon, unnatural |
| Main Entry: | natural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open, unaffected |
| Synonyms: | artless, candid, childlike, credulous, direct, easy, folksy, forthright, frank, genuine, homey*, ignorant, impulsive, ingenuous, innocent, instinctive, laid-back*, naive, plain, primitive, provincial, real, rustic, simple, sincere, spontaneous, straightforward, trusting, unfeigned, unpolished, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly, being oneself, inartificial, simplehearted, unassumed, uncontrived, undesigning, unembarrassed, unforced, unlabored, up-front |
| Antonyms: | affected, artificial, pretended, unnatural |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | natural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | organic, unrefined |
| Synonyms: | agrarian, crude, native, plain, pure, raw, uncultivated, unpolished, whole, wild, agrestal, unbleached, undomesticated, unmixed, unprocessed |
| 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, corporeal, earthly, earthy, feral, fleshy, muscular, natural, physical, sensual, untamed, wild, brutish, mammalian, 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, true, unadorned, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, up front, talking turkey, uncontrived |
| Antonyms: | artful, complicated, contrived, pretentious, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | bastard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegitimate |
| Synonyms: | adulterated, counterfeit, fake, false, imperfect, impure, inferior, irregular, misbegotten, mixed, mongrel, natural, phony, sham, spurious, baseborn, misborn, 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, substantial, tangible, somatic, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | mental, soulful, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | born |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innate |
| Synonyms: | built-in, congenital, constitutional, deep-seated, essential, inborn, inbred, inherent, intrinsic, natural, ingenerate |
| Notes: | born means brought into existence while borne means carried or transported |
| Main Entry: | childlike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innocent, naive |
| Synonyms: | artless, childish, credulous, guileless, immature, ingenuous, natural, simple, spontaneous, trusting, unaffected, unfeigned, trustful |
| Antonyms: | complicated, untrusting |
| Main Entry: | commonplace |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, everyday |
| Synonyms: | colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, familiar, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, mediocre, middle-of-the-road*, middling, mundane, natural, normal, obvious, ordinary, pedestrian, plebeian, prevalent, prosaic, run-of-the-mill*, stale, starch, stereotyped, threadbare, trite, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, uninteresting, vanilla*, widespread, worn-out, boiler plate, characterless, clichéd, dime-a-dozen, familiar tune, garden variety, matter-of-course, unnoteworthy, workaday |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | congenital |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inborn |
| Synonyms: | complete, constitutional, inbred, indigenous, ingrained, inherent, inherited, innate, intrinsic, inveterate, latent, native, natural, thorough, utter, connate, connatural, indwelling, unacquired |
| Antonyms: | contracted |
| Main Entry: | earthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsophisticated |
| Synonyms: | bawdy, coarse, crude, down, down-to-earth*, dull, easygoing, folksy, funky*, hard-boiled*, homely, homey, indelicate, lusty, mundane, natural, pragmatic, ribald, robust, rough, simple, uninhibited, unrefined, down home, home folk, lowbred, unidealistic |
| Antonyms: | cultured, elegant, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eco-rich |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | possessing an abundance of natural resources |
| Synonyms: | bountiful, clean, flowing, full, green, natural, plentiful, pure, rich |
| Main Entry: | fluent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | articulate |
| Synonyms: | chatty, cogent, copious, declamatory, disputatious, easy, effortless, effusive, eloquent, facile, flowing, garrulous, glib, liquid, loquacious, mellifluous, natural, persuasive, prompt, quick, ready, running, silver-tongued*, smooth, talkative, verbose, vocal, voluble, wordy, cursive, mellifluent, smooth-spoken, well-versed |
| Antonyms: | hesitant, inarticulate, unprepared, effortful, unfluent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | folksy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informal, simple |
| Synonyms: | cozy, down-to-earth*, homely, homey, low-key, modest, natural, plain, rustic, unassuming, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | completely honest |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, apparent, artless, blunt, bold, brazen, candid, direct, downright, easy, familiar, flat-out*, forthright, free, guileless, ingenuous, matter-of-fact, naive, natural, open, outright, outspoken, plain, real, scrupulous, sincere, straight, straightforward, transparent, truthful, unconcealed, uninhibited, unreserved, unrestricted, up front, upright, bare-faced, call a spade a spade, from the hip, heart-to-heart, lay it on the line, like it is, plain-spoken, saying what one thinks, undisguised |
| Antonyms: | devious, dishonest, evasive, insincere, secretive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | graceful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agile, charming, lovely |
| Synonyms: | adroit, aesthetic, artistic, beautiful, becoming, comely, curvaceous, dainty, decorative, delicate, dexterous, easy, elastic, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, flowing, handsome, harmonious, limber, lissome, lithe, natural, neat, nimble, pleasing, pliant, practiced, pretty, refined, rhythmic, seemly, shapely, skilled, slender, smooth, springy, statuesque, supple, symmetrical, tasteful, trim, willowy, balletic, controlled, poised |
| Antonyms: | awkward, careless, graceless, inept, uncouth, ungraceful, unhandy |
| Main Entry: | guileless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | honest |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, artless, candid, frank, genuine, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, open, simple, sincere, straightforward, truthful, unaffected, unsophisticated, unstudied, simple-minded, undesigning |
| Antonyms: | artful, clever, crafty, cunning, deceitful, dishonest, tricky, guileful |
| Main Entry: | gut |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intuitive |
| Synonyms: | basic, deep-seated, emotional, heartfelt, innate, inner, instinctive, interior, internal, intimate, involuntary, natural, spontaneous, unthinking, visceral, viscerous |
| Antonyms: | material, physical |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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