natural
/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹəl/ adjective A2- Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.
- Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature. · The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed.
- As expected; reasonable, normal; naturally arising from the given circumstances. · It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays.· His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime.
- Formed by nature; not manufactured or created by artificial processes.
- Pertaining to death brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc. · She died of natural causes.
- Having an innate ability to fill a given role or profession, or display a specified character.
- Designating a standard trigonometric function of an angle, as opposed to the logarithmic function.
- Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.
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Thereupon Anne held her tongue so obediently and thoroughly that her continued silence made Marilla rather nervous, as if in the presence of something not exactly natural.
Matthew also held his tongue,--but this was natural,--so that the meal was a very silent one.
“I wonder if the death was natural, or whether the poor old fellow killed himself!
Men who die from heart disease, or any sudden natural cause, never by any chance exhibit agitation upon their features.
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