 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
raw
adjective
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}]
noun: informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the
altogether"; "in his birthday suit" [syn: {altogether}, {birthday
suit}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Raw \Raw\ (r[add]), adjective [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.
2. Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe;
unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw
soldiers; a raw recruit.
Approved himself to the raw judgment of the
multitude. --De Quincey.
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.
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.
And all his sinews waxen weak and raw
Through long imprisonment. --Spenser.
5. Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.
''A raw and gusty day.'' --Shak.
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Raw \Raw\, noun
A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch
one on the raw.
Like savage hackney coachmen, they know where there is
a raw. --De Quincey.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
282 Moby Thesaurus words for "raw":
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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