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Raw

adjective

(compar. rawer; superl. rawest)

1.

(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes. Synonyms: natural, rude. "Natural produce" , "Raw wool" , "Raw sugar" , "Bales of rude cotton"

2.

Having the surface exposed and painful.

3.

Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating.

4.

Not processed or refined.

5.

Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure. Synonym: naked. "Raw fury" , "You may kill someone someday with your raw power"

6.

Brutally unfair or harsh. "A raw deal"

7.

Not processed or subjected to analysis. Synonym: crude. "The raw cost of production" , "Only the crude vital statistics"

8.

Untempered and unrefined. "Raw beauty"

9.

Hurting. Synonyms: sensitive, sore, tender.

10.

Unpleasantly cold and damp. Synonyms: bleak, cutting.

11.

Used of wood and furniture. Synonym: unsanded.

12.

Lacking training or experience. Synonym: new. "Raw recruits"

13.

(used informally) completely unclothed. Synonyms: bare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, peeled, stark naked.

noun

1.

Informal terms for nakedness. Synonyms: altogether, birthday suit. "In the altogether" , "In his birthday suit"

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"Raw" Quotes from Famous Books

... (shield)[16]. The first, being made in the form of a coat without sleeves, was composed of six or seven thicknesses of dressed deer skins impervious to the Indian arrows, except at very short range. The adarga was of two thicknesses of raw bulls-hide, borne on the left arm, and so managed by the trooper as to defend himself and his horse against the arrows and spears of the Indians; in addition, they used a species of apron of leather, fastened to the pommel of the ...

— The March of Portola • Zoeth S. Eldredge

... was invited to prepare a new edition of his Church history. Whilst he was mustering the close ranks of folios which had satisfied a century of historians, the world had moved, and there was an increase of raw material to be measured by thousands of volumes. The archives which had been sealed with seven seals had become as necessary to the serious student as his library. Every part of his studies had suffered transformation, except the fathers, who had largely escaped the crucible, and the ...

— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... class. Mr Tate did not break it but dug with his hand between his thighs while his heavily starched linen creaked about his neck and wrists. Stephen did not look up. It was a raw spring morning and his eyes were still smarting and weak. He was conscious of failure and of detection, of the squalor of his own mind and home, and felt against his neck the raw edge of his turned ...

— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

... if loose-knit organization of fleet-clans. Each of these had control over certain islands which served them as "fairings," ports for refitting and anchorage between voyages, usually ruggedly wooded where the sea people could find the raw material for their ships. Colonies of clans took to the sea, not in the slim, swift cruisers like the ship Ross was now on, but in larger, deeper vessels providing living quarters and warehouses afloat. They lived by trade and raiding, spending only a portion of the year ashore to ...

— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton

... brought the poor naked lady to her wigwam, quieted her, found some raw deerskins, and showed her how to cover herself ...

— Stories of Childhood • Various

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