Raw
[rɔː] or [rɔ]
Definition
(noun.) informal terms for nakedness; 'in the raw'; 'in the altogether'; 'in his birthday suit'.
(adj.) not treated with heat to prepare it for eating .
(adj.) lacking training or experience; 'the new men were eager to fight'; 'raw recruits' .
(adj.) brutally unfair or harsh; 'received raw treatment from his friends'; 'a raw deal' .
(adj.) having the surface exposed and painful; 'a raw wound' .
(adj.) untempered and unrefined; 'raw talent'; 'raw beauty' .
(adj.) not processed or refined; 'raw sewage' .
(adj.) used of wood and furniture; 'raw wood' .
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Definition
(superl.) Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.
(superl.) Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit.
(superl.) Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.
(superl.) Not distilled; as, raw water
(superl.) Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton
(superl.) Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits
(superl.) Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow
(superl.) Not tanned; as, raw hides
(superl.) Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.
(superl.) Not covered; bare.
(superl.) Bald.
(superl.) Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.
(superl.) Sore, as if by being galled.
(superl.) Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.
(n.) A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.
Editor: Philip
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Uncooked.[2]. Inexperienced, unskilled, unprepared, green.[3]. Cold, bleak, chilly.[4]. Unmanufactured, in the natural state.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Uncooked, unprepared, unfinished, unripe, crude, unseasoned, inexperienced,fresh, green, unpractised, untried, bare, bald, exposed, galled, chill, bleak,piercing
ANT:Cooked, dressed, prepared, finished, ripe, mature, mellow, seasoned,experienced, expert, adept, habituated, familiar, practised, trained, tried,covered, healed, balmy, genial
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Definition
adj. not altered from its natural state: not cooked or dressed: unbaked: not prepared or manufactured: not mixed: having the skin abraded: sore as from abrasion of the skin: unfinished: immature: inexperienced: chilly and damp.—n. a galled place: an inveterate sore: hence (fig.) a point on which one is particularly sensitive.—adjs. Raw′bone (Spens.) Raw′boned with little flesh on the bones: gaunt; Raw′-cold (Shak.) damp and cold.—ns. Raw′head a spectre mentioned to frighten children; Raw′hide an untanned skin: a whip made of twisted untanned leather.—adj. Raw′ish rather raw.—adv. Raw′ly.—ns. Raw′ness; Raw′-port a porthole through which an oar can be worked in a small vessel.
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Examples
- My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Next to McClernand came Prentiss with a raw division, and on the extreme left, Stuart with one brigade of Sherman's division. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And raw, then? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- From the angle of statecraft the future of the movement may be said to depend upon the wise use of this raw and scattered power. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Here was one centre then, here in the complete darkness beside the unseen, raw grave. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Besides air this process required as raw materials limestone and coke. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The raw cotton was put in a hopper, where it was met by the teeth of the saws, and torn from the seeds. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The light of high day surrounded me; not, indeed, a warm, summer light, but the leaden gloom of raw and blustering autumn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A part of their wool and raw hides, they had generally an opportunity of selling for money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When we were all out in the raw air and were steadily moving towards our business, I treasonably whispered to Joe, I hope, Joe, we shan't find them. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- From the treating and cutting of the raw material, from the outer bound edge, and the band about the body, to the tip of the crown, a machine may be found for performing each separate step. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She drove out solemnly in their great family coach with them, and Miss Wirt their governess, that raw-boned Vestal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Four raw new towns, and many ugly industrial hamlets were crowded under his dependence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The great man poured out a big tumbler half full of raw spirits, and gulped it down without a word. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I have reserved one of the pigeons raw, that you may see in what state it arrived. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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