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raw
[ raw ]
adjective
- uncooked, as articles of food:
a raw carrot.
- not having undergone processes of preparing, dressing, finishing, refining, or manufacture:
raw cotton.
Synonyms: unprepared, makeshift, rough
- unnaturally or painfully exposed, as flesh, by removal of the skin or natural integument.
- painfully open, as a sore or wound.
- crude in quality or character; not tempered or refined by art or taste:
raw humor.
- ignorant, inexperienced, or untrained:
a raw recruit.
Synonyms: undisciplined, unpracticed, unskilled, green
- brutally or grossly frank:
a raw portrayal of human passions.
- brutally harsh or unfair:
a raw deal; receiving raw treatment from his friends.
- disagreeably damp and chilly, as the weather or air:
a raw, foggy day at the beach.
- not diluted, as alcoholic spirits:
raw whiskey.
- unprocessed or unevaluated:
raw data.
noun
- a sore or irritated place, as on the flesh.
- unrefined sugar, oil, etc.
raw
/ rɔː /
adjective
- (of food) not cooked
raw onion
- prenominal in an unfinished, natural, or unrefined state; not treated by manufacturing or other processes
raw materials for making steel
raw brick
- (of an edge of material) unhemmed; liable to fray
- (of the skin, a wound, etc) having the surface exposed or abraded, esp painfully
- ignorant, inexperienced, or immature
a raw recruit
- prenominal not selected or modified
raw statistics
- frank or realistic
a raw picture of the breakdown of a marriage
- (of spirits) undiluted
- coarse, vulgar, or obscene
- recently done; fresh
raw paintwork
- (of the weather) harshly cold and damp
- informal.unfair; unjust (esp in the phrase a raw deal )
noun
- the raw informal.a sensitive point
his criticism touched me on the raw
- in the raw
- without clothes; naked
- in a natural or unmodified state
life in the raw
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Derived Forms
- ˈrawly, adverb
- ˈrawness, noun
- ˈrawish, adjective
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Other Words From
- rawish adjective
- rawish·ness noun
- rawly adverb
- rawness noun
- half-raw adjective
- semi·raw adjective
- semi·rawly adverb
- semi·rawness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of raw1
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Idioms and Phrases
- in the raw,
- in the natural, uncultivated, or unrefined state:
nature in the raw.
- Informal. in the nude; naked:
sunbathing in the raw.
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Example Sentences
Raw eel seemed to be popular during and after the Middle Ages.
The script would be used as more than just raw material, but would need to be fudged.
The raw materials— tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold—were dubbed “conflict minerals.”
But there was a lot of raw violence in the humor of the time.
But the raw believability of, say, Magnum photography has been done for.
It makes out of the savage raw material which is our basal mental stuff, a citizen.
It had come on to rain, and the raw dampness mingled itself with the dusky uproar of the Strand.
The evening was cold and raw and so dark that it was almost impossible to distinguish people on the badly lighted little platform.
This problem was solved by a native coming along driving a raw-boned horse before a rickety wagon.
The comparison of the cost of production, therefore, with the value of the raw material, shows a very large margin of profit.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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