Entry Word: native

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 belonging to a particular place by birth or origin <though she now lived in the Northeast, she was a native Midwesterner>

Synonyms aboriginal, born, endemic, indigenous

Related Words domestic, local; original

Near Antonyms imported, introduced, transplanted; alien, exotic, foreign, strange; expatriate, immigrant

Antonyms nonnative

2 being such as found in nature and not altered by processing or refining <diamonds in their native state are not the bright, flashy gems that one might imagine> — see crude 1