natural state

1. 1.

   a wild primitive state untouched by civilization

   “he lived in the wild”

   “they collected mushrooms in the wild”

   Synonymswildstate of nature

   Broaderstate

   Narrowercrudeness

Questions about natural state

What does natural state mean?

natural state means "a wild primitive state untouched by civilization".

What is another word for natural state?

Close synonyms include wild, state of nature. 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 state a common word?

natural state 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.