Qualities
Synonyms for natural
Synonyms for natural: lifelike and born. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for natural
Interchangeable with natural in this sense
Audited under natural's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one natural carries in that sense.
- lifelikeadjective, in the sense "free from artificiality"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name natural as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- bornborn is an adjective in the sense "being talented through inherited qualities"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under natural and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
free from artificiality
Her acting was so natural that the scene felt real.
The true synonym
lifelike
Same sentence, swapped: Her acting was so lifelike that the scene felt real.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where natural stands in the sentence above.
- rude
- born
- common
Where natural turns up in the game
natural is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where natural is the trap
- honestadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is honorable, in the sense "not disposed to cheat or defraud", and natural is one of the three tiles that lose.
- rudeadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is primitive, in the sense "belonging to an early stage of technical development", so natural is there to be ruled out.
- artificialadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is unreal, in the sense "contrived by art rather than nature", with natural sitting one tile away.
- unsulliedadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is stainless, in the sense "free from blemishes", and natural is on the board beside it.
Play natural
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so natural reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
natural is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.