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Raw   /rɑ/   Listen
Raw

adjective
(compar. rawer; superl. rawest)
1.
(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes.  Synonyms: natural, rude.  "Natural produce" , "Raw wool" , "Raw sugar" , "Bales of rude cotton"
2.
Having the surface exposed and painful.
3.
Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating.  Antonym: cooked.
4.
Not processed or refined.
5.
Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure.  Synonym: naked.  "Raw fury" , "You may kill someone someday with your raw power"
6.
Brutally unfair or harsh.  "A raw deal"
7.
Not processed or subjected to analysis.  Synonym: crude.  "The raw cost of production" , "Only the crude vital statistics"
8.
Untempered and unrefined.  "Raw beauty"
9.
Hurting.  Synonyms: sensitive, sore, tender.
10.
Unpleasantly cold and damp.  Synonyms: bleak, cutting.
11.
Used of wood and furniture.  Synonym: unsanded.
12.
Lacking training or experience.  Synonym: new.  "Raw recruits"
13.
(used informally) completely unclothed.  Synonyms: bare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, peeled, stark naked.
noun
1.
Informal terms for nakedness.  Synonyms: altogether, birthday suit.  "In the altogether" , "In his birthday suit"



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"Raw" Quotes from Famous Books



... the rocky stair; by his dress he was seen to be one of the anchorites of Sinai, for he wore nothing but a shirt-shaped garment of coarse linen, which he seemed to have outgrown, and raw leather sandals, which were tied on to his feet with ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... my raw-boned rogue, and if thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs with it too, they would not like rugged laths, rub out so many doublets as they do; but thou knowest not a good dish thou. No marvel though, that saucy stubborn generation, the Jews, were forbidden ...
— History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) - With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange

... it was a miserable day, though the wind was raw and cold, and the ground, soft from the first freeze, was slippery and muddy. But, as Bobby had once said, they were ...
— Four Little Blossoms at Oak Hill School • Mabel C. Hawley

... due to the first glance you get at the hard, realistic England of to-day. You have noticed a machine clutch its raw material and twist and turn it through its relentless bowels. That is the way the habits of England seize you when you land, and begin to appropriate your personality. This is the first offence of England in the eyes of an American, whose favorite phrase, "the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 • Various

... Camp, three miles away, great interest being displayed in the few German prisoners working on the docks. On arrival the Battalion found it was under canvas, no floor boards and plenty of mud—a first taste of real discomfort. Moreover the day was raw, with a suspicion of snow, and no one was sorry when it was announced that the Camp was being left first thing in the morning. That evening a few of the Officers visited the town itself, and others went out on a first reconnaissance to discover ...
— The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) - Record of War Service, 1914-1918 • Various


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