n. the act of endowing with a permanent source of income; "his generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of time"

n. (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake

n. someone regarded as certain to succeed; "he's a natural for the job"

n. the capital that provides income for an institution

n. natural abilities or qualities

n. a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

adj. related by blood; not adopted; "natural parent"

adj. in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena"

adj. 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"

adj. existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical; "a perfectly natural explanation"

adj. (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"

adj. 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"

adj. in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena"

adj. being a card other than a wild card or joker

adj. free of artificiality; sincere and genuine; "an unaffected grace"

adj. free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction"

adj. not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace"

adj. involving or derived from living organisms; free from chemical treatments or additives; "organic gardening is more natural"; "nonsynthetic fertilizer"

adj. produced without being planted or without human labor: "wild strawberries"

adj. (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"

n. a grant made by a law court; "he criticized the awarding of compensation by the court"

n. the act of providing a subsidy

n. a person who was born in a particular place; an indigenous person

n. a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"

n. the earliest known inhabitants of a region

n. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

n. a member of an uncivilized people

n. a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community

n. a person who inhabits a particular place

n. someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

n. a reserve of money set aside for some purpose

n. that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

n. everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities

n. a skill at which you excel

n. the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior

n. one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

n. the inherent capacity for coming into being

n. the superior ability that is attained by study and practice and observation; "he had mastered the art of a great craftsman"

n. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"

n. an aptitude that may be developed

n. the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

n. the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple

n. adroitness in using the hands

n. the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble

n. skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer"

n. a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

n. skill in an occupation or trade

n. skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge

n. the quality of having great facility and competence

n. unusual mental ability

n. exceptional creative ability

n. great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French"

n. a practical method or art applied to some particular task

n. technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso

n. skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity; "practice greatly improves proficiency"

n. possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination"

n. inherent ability

n. the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

n. an ability that has been acquired by training

n. ability to produce solutions in some problem domain; "the skill of a well-trained boxer"; "the sweet science of pugilism"

n. inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli; "the spawning instinct in salmon"; "altruistic instincts in social animals"

n. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"

n. an asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte"

adj. inexperienced

adj. simple and natural; without cunning or deceit; "an artless manner"; "artless elegance"

adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"

adj. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief"

adj. existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical; "a perfectly natural explanation"

adj. not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"

adj. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief"

adj. 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"

adj. having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap"

adj. exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category; "a typical American girl"; "a typical suburban community"; "the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"; "a painting typical of the Impressionist school"; "a typical romantic poem"; "a typical case of arteritis"

adj. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief"

adj. not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"

adj. not mixed with impurities; "unadulterated maple syrup"

adj. free from dirt or stain: "pristine mountain snow"; "the unsullied splendor of eternal youth"- Oscar Wilde; "nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage"- L. P. Smith

adj. without soil or spot or stain

adj. of reputation; "his unsullied name"; "an untarnished reputation"

adj. (of offspring) generated by procreation; "naturally begotten child"

adj. simple and natural; without cunning or deceit; "an artless manner"; "artless elegance"

adj. 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"

adj. existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical; "a perfectly natural explanation"

adj. in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena"

adj. in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena"

adj. (psychol) characterized by average intelligence and ability and development

adj. approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall"

adj. relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000"

adj. relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30"

adj. having normal blood pressure

adj. free from psychological disorder; "a well-adjusted personality"

adj. without artificiality; natural; "the doctor's quiet unmannered entry"

adj. not self-conscious; "she grew up with him in unselfconscious friendship"

adj. flowing naturally and continuously; "unstilted conversation"

adj. not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship; "what a cushy job!"; "the easygoing life of a parttime consultant"; "a soft job"

adj. easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"

adj. lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly"

adj. made easy or uncomplicated

adj. resembling a living organism in organization or development; "society as an integrated whole"

adj. not suitable for cultivation or tilling; "thickets of indigenous trees...on uncultivable land"- C.B.Palmer

adj. (of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops; "uncultivated land"

adj. (of a piece of ground) not have a crop sown on it; "farmland still unsown"

adj. not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"

adj. not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural interest in death"

adj. suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu"

adj. contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

adj. not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings"

adj. being or having the character of a miracle

adj. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley

adj. raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "C sharp"

adj. lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat"

adj. speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

adj. artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

adj. prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process; "processed ores"