raw
uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
not having undergone processes of preparing, dressing, finishing, refining, or manufacture: raw cotton.
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.
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.
a sore or irritated place, as on the flesh.
unrefined sugar, oil, etc.
Idioms about raw
in the raw,
in the natural, uncultivated, or unrefined state: nature in the raw.
Informal. in the nude; naked: sunbathing in the raw.
Origin of raw
1synonym study For raw
Other words for raw
Opposites for raw
Other words from raw
- rawish, adjective
- raw·ish·ness, noun
- rawly, adverb
- rawness, noun
- half-raw, adjective
- sem·i·raw, adjective
- sem·i·raw·ly, adverb
- sem·i·raw·ness, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for raw
/ (rɔː) /
(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
mainly US coarse, vulgar, or obscene
mainly US recently done; fresh: raw paintwork
(of the weather) harshly cold and damp
informal unfair; unjust (esp in the phrase a raw deal)
the raw British informal a sensitive point: his criticism touched me on the raw
in the raw
informal without clothes; naked
in a natural or unmodified state: life in the raw
Origin of raw
1Derived forms of raw
- rawish, adjective
- rawly, adverb
- rawness, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with raw
In addition to the idiom beginning with raw
- raw deal
also see:
- in the altogether (raw)
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