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clan, tribal: We visited a Dutch town where the people wear
traditional native dress. 5 aboriginal, provincial, local: We
soon fell in with the native custom of taking a siesta. 6 born;
by birth: Are you a native Glaswegian?
--n. 7 aborigine, indigene, autochthon; national, citizen,
resident, inhabitant: It is not difficult to distinguish the
natives from the tourists in London.
natural adj. 1 ordinary, common, commonplace, normal, standard,
regular, usual, customary, unexceptional, routine, habitual,
typical, everyday; reasonable, logical, reasonable, sensible,
accepted: They say that Count Dracula could not die a natural
death. The natural thing to do in case of attack is to defend
oneself. 2 normal, ordinary, regular, expected; spontaneous:
The natural motion of the waves carried the bottle out to sea.
3 simple, basic, fundamental, real, unartificial, genuine,
unembellished, unadorned, unpretentious: She has great natural
beauty and needs no cosmetics. 4 unstudied, unconstrained,
candid, frank, spontaneous, unaffected, easy, honest, straight,
straightforward, artless, guileless, impulsive, unpremeditated,
unaffected, ingenuous, unsophisticated, unsophistic(al): His
kindness is quite natural. 5 See native, 1, above: She has a
natural gift for painting. 6 true, real, genuine, actual,
authentic, bona fide: That, believe it or not, is his natural
hair. 7 lifelike, true to life, realistic: Note the natural
colours of the sea in this painting by Whistler. 8
illegitimate, bastard: He was the duke's natural son and had no
claim on the estate. 9 consistent, consonant, consequent,
logical, reasonable, fitting, appropriate, proper, expected, not
incongruous, understandable: In the circumstances, it would
have been natural for her to despise Jonathan. 10 organic,
organically grown, non-chemical, health: They eat only natural
foods, which they grow themselves.
--n. 11 genius, artist, talent: When it comes to chess, Boris
is a natural. 12 Archaic idiot, imbecile, simpleton, fool,
halfwit: One would have to be a natural to give money to that
crook.
naturally adv. 1 (as a matter) of course, needless to say, to be sure,
certainly, surely, not unexpectedly, as expected or anticipated,
obviously, clearly, logically, consequently, as a consequence or