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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How to use raw in a sentence
But Slutever, with its rawness, honesty, and self-deprecating humor, was something different.
Is This Dildo-Licking, Dominatrix-Loving Vogue Blogger the New Face of Feminism? | Lizzie Crocker | May 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST"Bradshaw and McBeal in particular stand out from the other women of their time because of their sheer rawness," Nisita writes.
Now I think that many are beginning to experience the rawness of the trauma, emptiness, and loss.
There was a rawness and impolitic honesty to his shows, many of which could make your heart weep.
Louis Vuitton, Chanel, McQueen Cap Paris Spring 2013 Fashion Week Shows | Robin Givhan | October 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe sheer rawness of profound loss was finally beginning to set in.
They lose their excess, or what we should call in wine, their rawness and their freshness.
For that rawness of the nerves I speak of, many apply themselves to drink; some rush to drugs; for myself, I take to music.
The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 | VariousIn the four years of his school-teaching at Jasper Mackenzie slowly grew out of his extreme rawness of appearance.
The Flockmaster of Poison Creek | George W. OgdenMiss Seldon was frankly bored by the crude rawness of the place.
The Highgrader | William MacLeod RaineCould Horace Endicott have ever descended to this view of his world, this rawness of thought, sentiment, and expression?
The Art of Disappearing | John Talbot Smith
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)
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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