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English

Etymology

{{term|hreaw|hrēaw|lang=ang}}, cognate with Old High German {{term|rao|rāo|lang=goh}}, Old Norse .

Pronunciation


Homophones

  • roar (non-rhotic accents)


Adjective

  1. Not cooked.
  2. Not treated or processed.
  3. : raw cane sugar
  4. : raw sewage
  5. New or inexperienced.
  6. : a raw beginner
  7. chafed, tender, or irritated.
  8. : a raw wound
  9. rough or uneven.
  10. : a raw voice
  11. without a condom
  12. : We did it raw.


Translations

Anagrams


es:raw fa:raw fr:raw io:raw id:raw it:raw kk:raw ku:raw hu:raw simple:raw fi:raw ta:raw te:raw vi:raw zh:raw

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Raw \Raw\ (r[add]), a. [Compar. Rawer (r[add]"[~e]r); superl.
Rawest.] [AS. hre['a]w; akin to D. raauw, LG. rau, G. roh,
OHG. r[=o], Icel. hr[=a]r, Dan. raa, Sw. r[*a], L. crudus,
Gr. kre`as flesh, Skr. kravis raw flesh. [root]18. Cf.
Crude, Cruel.]
1. 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.
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2. Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe;
unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw
soldiers; a raw recruit.
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Approved himself to the raw judgment of the
multitude. --De Quincey.
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3. Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by
art; unwrought. Specifically:
(a) Not distilled; as, raw water. [Obs.] --Bacon.
(b) Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton.
(c) Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits.
(d) Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow.
(e) Not tanned; as, raw hides.
(f) Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw
edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.
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4. Not covered; bare. Specifically:
(a) Bald. [Obs.] "With skull all raw." --Spenser
(b) Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.
(c) Sore, as if by being galled.
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And all his sinews waxen weak and raw
Through long imprisonment. --Spenser.
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5. Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.
"A raw and gusty day." --Shak.
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Raw material, material that has not been subjected to a
(specified) process of manufacture; as, ore is the raw
material used in smelting; leather is the raw material of
the shoe industry.

Raw pig, cast iron as it comes from the smelting furnace.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Raw \Raw\, n.
A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch
one on the raw.
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Like savage hackney coachmen, they know where there is
a raw. --De Quincey.
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WordNet raw
adj 1: (used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed
condition; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw
wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: natural,
raw(a), rude(a)]
2: having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound"
3: not treated with heat to prepare it for eating [ant: cooked]
4: not processed or refined; "raw sewage"
5: devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and
pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone
someday with your raw power" [syn: naked]
6: brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his
friends"; "a raw deal"
7: not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw
cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
[syn: crude]
8: untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty"
9: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North
Atlantic" [syn: bleak, cutting]
10: inflamed and painful; "his throat was raw"; "had a sore
throat" [syn: sore]
11: used of wood and furniture; "raw wood" [syn: raw(a), unsanded]
12: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to
fight"; "raw recruits"; "he was still wet behind the ears
when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel" [syn: new,
wet behind the ears(p)]
13: (used informally) completely unclothed [syn: bare-assed, bare-ass,
in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, peeled,
naked as a jaybird, stark naked]
n : informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the
altogether"; "in his birthday suit" [syn: altogether, {birthday
suit}]
Moby Dictionary
Rabelaisian , Siberian , a novice at , a stranger to , abusive ,
adolescent , algetic , algid , angry , arctic , at half cock , awkward ,
bald , bare , bare-ass , bareness , below zero , birthday suit , biting ,
bitter , bitterly cold , blankminded , blasphemous , bleak , blinding ,
blown , boreal , brisk , broad , brumal , budding , burning , callow ,
calumniatory , calumnious , chafed , coarse , cold , cold as charity ,
cold as death , cold as ice , cold as marble , comminatory ,
contumelious , crass , crisp , crude , cursing , cutting , damnatory ,
decollete , denunciatory , dewy , dirty , dumb , dysphemistic , earthy ,
ecdysiast , empty , empty-headed , epithetic , ever-new , evergreen ,
excommunicative , excommunicatory , execratory , exposed ,
exposed nerve , festering , fiery , firsthand , flaring , flashy ,
flaunting , fledgling , foul , frank , freezing , freezing cold , fresh ,
frigid , fulminatory , galled , garish , gauche , gaudy , gelid , glacial ,
glaring , green , green as grass , groping , gross , growing , gutter ,
gymnosophical , gymnosophist , gymnosophy , half-baked , half-cocked ,
half-grown , hibernal , hiemal , hyperborean , ice-cold , ice-encrusted ,
icelike , icy , ignorant , ill-digested , immature , imprecatory ,
impubic , impure , in native buff , in puris naturalibus ,
in the altogether , in the buff , in the raw , inane , inclement ,
inexperienced , inflamed , ingenuous , innocent , intact , irritated ,
juicy , juvenile , keen , know-nothing , loud , low , lurid , maiden ,
maidenly , maledictory , meretricious , minor , naive , naked ,
nakedness , native , naturism , naturist , naturistic , neoteric ,
nerve ending , nescient , nestling , new , new to , new-fledged ,
nipping , nippy , not a stitch , nude , nudism , nudist , nudity ,
numbing , obscene , original , overbright , peeled , penetrating ,
piercing , pinching , pristine , profane , rank , rankling , rare ,
raw nerve , red , ribald , rigorous , ripening , risque , rough , rude ,
sappy , scatologic , screaming , scurrile , scurrilous , sempervirent ,
sensitive , severe , sharp , shrieking , simple , sleety , slushy ,
smarting , snappy , soft spot , sore , sore point , sore spot ,
stark-naked , state of nature , stone-cold , strange to , stripper ,
stripteaser , subzero , supercooled , tender , tender spot , tentative ,
the altogether , the nude , the quick , the raw , tingling ,
toplessness , unaccustomed to , unacquainted , unacquainted with ,
unadult , unapprized , unbaked , unbeaten , unboiled , uncomprehending ,
unconversant , unconversant with , uncooked , uncouth , underage ,
undercooked , underdone , underripe , undeveloped , unenlightened ,
unexperienced , unfamiliar , unfamiliar with , unfledged , unformed ,
ungrown , unhandled , unilluminated , uninformed , uninitiated ,
uninitiated in , unintelligent , unknowing , unlicked , unmatured ,
unmellowed , unposted , unpracticed , unpracticed in , unripe ,
unseasoned , unskilled in , unsure , untouched , untried , untrodden ,
unused , unused to , unversed , unversed in , vacuous , vernal , vile ,
virgin , virginal , vituperative , vulgar , windblown , windswept ,
winterbound , winterlike , wintery , wintry , with nothing on ,
without a stitch , young


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