Free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction" being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" related by blood; not adopted; "natural parent" (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing" (of a key) containing no sharps or flats; (of a note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone; "a natural scale"; "B natural" functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies; "it's the natural thing to happen"; "natural immunity"; "a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild" existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical; "a perfectly natural explanation" existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation; "a natural pearl"; "natural gas"; "natural silk"; "natural blonde hair"; "a natural sweetener"; "natural fertilizers" in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena" (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat someone regarded as certain to succeed; "he's a natural for the job"
Most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied; "an optimum return on capital"; "optimal concentration of a drug" most favorable condition or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances
The central message of a communication; "the body of the message was short" the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted" a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents" an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body" the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium" a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake" the entire structure of an organism (especially an animal or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" invest with or as with a body; give body to
The occupants of a building; "the entire building complained about the noise" the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades" the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats" a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"