raw
/rɔ:/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Not cooked: Food that has not been prepared or heated for eating.
- In a natural state; not processed or refined: Materials or data that are unprocessed, untreated, or unanalyzed.
- Lacking experience or training; untrained: A person who is new, inexperienced, or not yet skilled.
- Painfully exposed, as a wound: Skin or flesh that is abraded, sore, or unprotected.
- Unpleasantly damp and cold: Weather or air that is harshly chilly and wet.
- Frank and realistic in an unpleasant way; crude: Something presented without softening or concealment.
- Unfair or harsh: Treatment or an agreement that is unjust.
Noun:
- A sore or painful spot on the body.
- Informal: The state of being naked.
Examples
Adjective:
- She prefers to eat raw vegetables in her salad.
- The factory imports raw materials like cotton and iron ore.
- He's a raw recruit with no military experience.
- The fall left a raw scrape on his knee.
- They endured a raw winter wind coming off the ocean.
- The film offers a raw portrayal of urban poverty.
- Many workers felt they had received a raw deal in the contract negotiations.
Noun:
- The tight shoe rubbed a raw on his heel.
- He ran out of the sauna and jumped into the pool in the raw.
Advanced Usage
"raw data": Unprocessed, collected information that has not been organized or analyzed.
- The scientist spent months collecting raw data from the experiment.
"raw talent": Natural ability that is impressive but not yet developed or trained.
- The young singer has raw talent but needs professional coaching.
"raw nerve": A subject or issue that causes someone immediate and intense emotional pain or anger.
- His criticism about her family touched a raw nerve.
Variants and Related Words
- Rawboned (adj): Having a lean, gaunt physique with prominent bones.
- Rawhide (n): Untanned leather.
- Rawly (adv): In a raw manner.
Synonyms
- Uncooked (for food).
- Unprocessed, crude, natural (for materials).
- Inexperienced, green, untrained (for people).
- Abraded, sore (for wounds).
- Bleak, chilly (for weather).
- Unvarnished, blunt (for descriptions).
- Unjust, unfair (for treatment).
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
- Touch (someone) on the raw: To upset someone by referring to a subject they are very sensitive about.
- His comment about her failed business touched her on the raw.
Related Idioms
A raw deal: Unfair or harsh treatment.
- She got a raw deal when she was fired without warning.
In the raw:
- In a natural, unprocessed, or uncivilized state.
- We saw nature in the raw on the remote island.
- Naked.
- The children were swimming in the raw.
Adjective
- (used informally) completely unclothed
- lacking training or experience
- the new men were eager to fight
- raw recruits
- used of wood and furniture
- raw wood
- unpleasantly cold and damp
- bleak winds of the North Atlantic
- hurting
- the tender spot on his jaw
- untempered and unrefined
- raw talent
- raw beauty
- not processed or subjected to analysis
- raw data
- the raw cost of production
- only the crude vital statistics
- brutally unfair or harsh
- received raw treatment from his friends
- a raw deal
- devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
- naked ambition
- raw fury
- you may kill someone someday with your raw power
- not processed or refined
- raw sewage
- not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
- having the surface exposed and painful
- a raw wound
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
- natural yogurt
- natural produce
- raw wool
- raw sugar
- bales of rude cotton
Noun
- informal terms for nakedness
- in the raw
- in the altogether
- in his birthday suit