Definition of Natural state

1. Noun. A wild primitive state untouched by civilization. "They collected mushrooms in the wild"

Exact synonyms: State Of Nature, Wild
Generic synonyms: State
Specialized synonyms: Crudeness, Crudity, Primitiveness, Primitivism, Rudeness
Derivative terms: Wild, Wild

Lexicographical Neighbors of Natural State

natural product
natural products
natural reserve
natural resin
natural resource
natural resources
natural science
natural sciences
natural scientist
natural scientists
natural selection
natural shape
natural son
natural sons
natural spring
natural state (current term)
natural theology
natural transformation
natural unit
natural units
natural user interface
natural user interfaces
natural virtue
naturalisation
naturalisations
naturalise
naturalised
naturalises
naturalising
naturalism

Literary usage of Natural state

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philosophy of Natural History: With an Introduction and Various by William Smellie, John Ware (1851)
"... in any of tiie spots which remain In the natural state, they retain their natural color and appearance The same is the case with inferior animals, ..."

2. The Works of Thomas Reid, D.D., Now Fully Collected, with Selections from by Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Dugald Stewart (1863)
"If one should say that the state of infancy is a more natural state than that of ... What period of this progress shall we call man's natural state ? ..."

3. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"Our natural state is that in which we now live ; the present state is to each race of men, if not to every one man, the natural state ; the state attained ..."

4. A Text-Book in the History of Education by Paul Monroe (1905)
"DOCTRINE OF THE "natural state." —In 1749, coming by chance across the theme for a prize essay propounded by the Dijon Academy, — one of the institutions ..."

5. A Text-book in the History of Education by Paul Monroe (1905)
"DOCTRINE OF THE "natural state." —In 1749, coming by chance across the theme for a prize essay propounded by the Dijon Academy, — one of the institutions ..."

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