Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. In a natural manner.
- adv. By nature; inherently.
- adv. Without a doubt; surely.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bynature; not by art or habit: as, he was naturally eloquent.
- Spontaneously; without art or cultivation.
- Without affectation or artificiality; with ease or grace.
- According to the usual course of things; by an obvious consequence; of course.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a natural manner.
- adv. Inherently or by nature.
- adv. Surely or without any doubt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. through inherent nature
- adv. as might be expected
- adv. according to nature; by natural means; without artificial help
- adv. in a natural or normal manner
Etymologies
- natural + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Old Gay, for example, used absolutely', not only in places where the younger of us might quite naturally still, but also in the sense of actually' or even naturally' exactly as though he were speaking in the 1870's.”
“And including more emotions and more sensual experiences naturally and I am using my Biologist Hat here, *naturally* means it will be more arousing.”
“The term "naturally raised" is another USDA term that says the animals were not fed any animal by-products, growth hormones or antibiotics.”
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“This naturally translates as a passive: “The square root function is computed using the Newton-Raphson method”.”
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“The idea that he can pick and choose who runs his label naturally makes executives sweat.”
““Your name naturally prolongs itself into a sigh as I think what fun I should have had I been with you in England.””
“As the experiments of these artists were directed chiefly to the solution of problems of light, the term naturally was widened to include that whole division of painting which is concerned with atmospheric aspects and color harmonies rather than with subject-interest and line composition.”
“Upon the demise of the old monarch, the title naturally passed to the”
“In the Act of Supremacy, Parliament declared the king to be "the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England," and that he should enjoy all the powers which the title naturally carried with it.”
“And the term naturally carries the idea, that the Drama in question stands on much the same ground relatively to the Classic Drama as is commonly recognized in the case of Gothic and Classic architecture; which may help us to realize how each Drama forms a distinct species, and lives free of the other so that any argument or criticism from the ancient against the modern is wholly irrelevant.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘naturally’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)polythene, Sun King, rhythm and blues, taxman, tripper, monkey business, mailman, matchbox, rock and roll, ooh, blue jay, reprise and 388 more...
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9-16 letter words without E
abduction, abolitionist, abomination, actuality, addiction, administration, admission, ambiguous, anticlimactic, application, arachnophobia, arthropathy and 186 more...
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Of course!
darn tootin', damn straight, duh, fair dinkum, no shit, for sure, seriously, absolutely, no question, i'm sold, certainly, sure as shootin' and 8 more...
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Natural phrases
a look at natural usage
as natural as bre..., come natural, to, natural area, natural body, natural break, natural cement, natural childbirth, natural day, natural deduction, natural Englishman, natural fibre, natural food and 84 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Enchancey.
naturally, easily, unlimited, aware, realizing, experiencing, before, during, after, among, expand, beyond and 31 more...
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Eye Of The Tiger
more words
evacuating, absolutely, basilisk, genius, vecalized, realized, modestly, delighted, diadem, still, naturally, trotted and 42 more...
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JohnnyElectrifying's list
Asinine and puerile.
luftwaffle, spanguguese, fernanamous, tomfoolery, shenanigans, fugazi, false, affirmative, prurient, lambaste, jackassery, elitist and 11 more...
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Words often used by stupid people to ...
obviously, like, um, basically, you know, sort of, well, kind of, maybe, right, probably, possibly and 10 more...
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