Phrase guide
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adj
In a natural state; without any artificial change; natural; also, done in a way to appear natural.
Of a person: not wearing makeup and with one's natural hair colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: all-natural
Antonyms: none provided
adj
In a natural state; without any artificial change; natural; also, done in a way to appear natural.
Of a person (especially a woman): having untrimmed pubic hair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of food: prepared or served raw or very simply cooked.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of a person: in a state of not wearing clothes; in the nude, naked.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous, not-comparable, sometimes
Synonyms: au naturel, bare, bare-ass, bare-assed, bare-bottomed, bare-bum, bare-butt, barefoot all over, bare naked, bareskin, bare-skinned, Billy bollocks, bollock naked, bollocky, buck ass naked, buck naked, butt-ass naked, butt-naked, butt-stinking, clothesless, clothingless, denuded, exposed, Harry starkers, in all one's glory, in a state of nature, in one's birthday suit, in puris naturalibus, in the buff, in the altogether, in the nuddy, in the nude, in the pink, in the raw, in the scud, kaalgat, mother-naked, naked, naked as the day one was born, naked as a jaybird, nakers, nakie, nakes, nakey, nekkid, nip, nude, nudie, nudy rudy, scud, scuddy, skyclad, stark bollock naked, stark naked, starkers, start naked, stone naked, unclad, unclothed, undressed, wearing one's birthday suit, without a stitch on
Antonyms: none provided
adv
In a natural state; without any artificial change; naturally; also, in a way to appear natural.
Of the action of a person: in a manner without makeup and with one's natural hair colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
In a natural state; without any artificial change; naturally; also, in a way to appear natural.
Of the action of a person (especially a woman): in a manner with untrimmed pubic hair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Of the preparation or serving of food: in a raw or very simply cooked manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Of the action of a person: in a naked manner; without clothes; in the nude, nakedly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous, not-comparable, sometimes
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Unadapted borrowing from French au naturel (“in the natural state; cooked plainly”), from au (“at the; in the; to the”) + naturel (“natural”) (ultimately borrowed from Latin nātūrālis (“of or relating to nature”), from nātūra (“natural world, nature”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship)). Nātūra is derived from nāscor (“to be born; to grow, spring forth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh1- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”)) + -tūra (suffix forming action nouns denoting activities or their results).
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
