NATURAL STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does natural state mean? 

• NATURAL STATE (noun)
  The noun NATURAL STATE has 1 sense:

1. a wild primitive state untouched by civilization

  Familiarity information: NATURAL STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATURAL STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wild primitive state untouched by civilization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

natural state; state of nature; wild

Context example:

they collected mushrooms in the wild

Hypernyms ("natural state" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "natural state"):

crudeness; crudity; primitiveness; primitivism; rudeness (a wild or unrefined state)

 Context examples 

In its most natural state, such clusters tend to form in the shape of a cone.

(Bees Help Researchers Confirm Theory about Maintaining Protective Clumps under Tough Conditions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Experimental pathology; the study of disease processes by the manipulation of the natural state of an organism.

(Experimental Pathology, NCI Thesaurus)

This aquifer is a rare chance to study the ocean in its natural state.

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)

A liquid preparation (i.e., a substance that flows readily in its natural state) that contains a drug dissolved in a suitable solvent or mixture of mutually miscible solvents; the drug has been strengthened by the evaporation of its non-active parts.

(Concentrated Solution Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)