natured
Having a disposition
Natured appears almost exclusively after a hyphen, forming compound adjectives that describe someone's temperament or disposition.
A good-natured person is cheerful and easygoing; an ill-natured one is irritable or mean-spirited.
The pattern extends to other descriptors: sweet-natured, mild-natured, even-natured.
Without a prefix, natured is rare and sounds incomplete, since the word exists primarily to specify what kind of nature someone possesses.
Type or caring
- gentleSoft and kind
- goodSatisfactory in quality
- kind-heartedHaving a gentle, caring nature
- sweetTasting of sugar
warm · mild · soft · good-hearted · sweet-tempered · tender · loving · amiable
In poor health
quick · slow · even · sanguine · phlegmatic · choleric · melancholic · placid
Existing as essential part
- intrinsicBelonging by nature
- inbornExisting from birth
- nativeOriginating from a place
- instinctiveArising without conscious thought
hardwired · genetic · hereditary · congenital · biological · intuitive · fundamental · essential
kind
Type or caring
- gentleSoft and kind
- goodSatisfactory in quality
- kind-heartedHaving a gentle, caring nature
sweet · warm · mild · soft · good-hearted · sweet-tempered · tender · loving · amiable · genial
ill
In poor health
cold · quick · slow · even · sanguine · phlegmatic · choleric · melancholic · placid · irascible
inherent
Existing as essential part
instinctive · hardwired · genetic · hereditary · congenital · biological · intuitive · fundamental · essential · deep-seated
inclined
Tending toward, tilted
- disposedInclined toward something
- proneInclined or face-down
- predisposedInclined beforehand
bent · oriented · leaning · given · apt · liable · wont · susceptible · biased · partial
naturednurtured
Cared for supportively
conditioned · trained · cultivated · learned · acquired
naturedmannered
Artificially formal in style
behaved · acting · conditioned · performed · affected
- natural disasterCatastrophic environmental event
- second natureDeeply ingrained tendency
- human natureInborn behavioral tendencies shared universally
- natural lightIllumination from the sun
- by natureThrough inherent character
- natural causesDeath without external intervention
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