BY NATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does by nature mean? 

• BY NATURE (adverb)
  The adverb BY NATURE has 1 sense:

1. through inherent nature

  Familiarity information: BY NATURE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BY NATURE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Through inherent nature

Synonyms:

by nature; naturally

Context example:

he was naturally lazy

 Context examples 

I rose; I dressed myself with care: obliged to be plain—for I had no article of attire that was not made with extreme simplicity—I was still by nature solicitous to be neat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was actually forced to exert herself to meet Lady Russell with anything like the appearance of equal solicitude, on topics which had by nature the first claim on her.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“None of your close shavers the Prince ain't. You'd say so, if you saw his moustachios. Red by nature, black by art.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By nature inoffensive, friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St. James's had made him courteous.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

You're not a conceited boy by nature, and so I can safely tell you it is not that. It's deeper.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By nature he must have been a fair-skinned man, for his upper brow, where his cap came over it, was as white as mine, and his close-cropped hair was tawny.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have frequently thought that I must have been intended by nature to be fond of low company, I am so little at my ease among strangers of gentility!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A description for something that exists in or is produced by nature, and is not artificial or man-made.

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