natural resources

1. 1.

   resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature

   Synonymsnatural resource

   Broaderresource

   Narrowerland resourcesmineral resourcesrenewable resource

Questions about natural resources

What does natural resources mean?

natural resources means "resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature".

What is another word for natural resources?

Close synonyms include natural resource. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is natural resources a common word?

natural resources is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.