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Raw

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Adjective, Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

Rawa. [AS. hreáw; akin to D. raauw, LG. rau, G. roh, OHG. r, Icel. hrār, Dan. raa, Sw. , L. crudus, Gr. kre`as flesh, Skr. kravis raw flesh. Crude, Cruel.].
  •  Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna;  [1913 Webster]
  •  Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit.  [1913 Webster]
    "Approved himself to the raw judgment of the multitude."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Not covered; bare.  [1913 Webster]
    "And all his sinews waxen weak and raw
    Through long imprisonment.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
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.
Rawn. 
     A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.  [1913 Webster]
    "Like savage hackney coachmen, they know where there is a raw."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Raw, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 (of food) uncooked.
2 in the natural state; not processed or manufactured (raw sewage).
3 (of alcoholic spirit) undiluted.
4 (of statistics etc.) not analysed or processed.
5 (of a person) inexperienced, untrained; new to an activity (raw recruits).
6 a stripped of skin; having the flesh exposed. b sensitive to the touch from having the flesh exposed.
7 (of the atmosphere, day, etc.) chilly and damp.
8 crude in artistic quality; lacking finish.
9 (of the edge of cloth) without hem or selvage.
10 (of silk) as reeled from cocoons.
11 (of grain) unmalted.
--n. a raw place on a person's or horse's body.

Idiom
come the raw prawn Austral. sl. attempt to deceive. in the raw
1 in its natural state without mitigation (life in the raw).
2 naked. raw-boned gaunt and bony. raw deal harsh or unfair treatment. raw material that from which the process of manufacture makes products. raw sienna a brownish-yellow ferruginous earth used as a pigment. raw umber umber in its natural state, dark yellow in colour. touch on the raw upset (a person) on a sensitive matter.
Derivative
rawish adj. rawly adv. rawness n.
Etymology
OE hreaw f. Gmc

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Raw

Materials

N materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.

Nonpreparation

N nonpreparation, non-preparation, absence of preparation, want of preparation, inculture, inconcoction, improvidence, immaturity, crudity, rawness, abortion, disqualification, nature, state of nature, virgin soil, unweeded garden, neglect, rough copy, germ, raw material, improvisation, unprepared (prepare), without preparation, incomplete, rudimental, embryonic, abortive, immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude, coarse, rough cast, rough hewn, in the rough, unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished, unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured, unlicked, untaught, uneducated, uncultivated, untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised, deckle- edged, precocious, premature, undigested, indigested, unmellowed, unseasoned, unleavened, unrehearsed, unscripted, extemporaneous, improvised, spontaneous, ad lib, ad libitem, fallow, unsown, untilled, natural, in a state of nature, undressed, in dishabille, en deshabille, unqualified, disqualified, unfitted, ill-digested, unbegun, unready, unarranged, unorganized, unfurnished, unprovided, unequipped, untrimmed, out of gear, out of order, dismantled, shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless, unguarded, happy-go- lucky, caught napping, unpremeditated, extempore.

Unskillfulness

N unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, shiftless, unstatesmanlike, unadvised, ill-advised, misadvised, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted, unguided, misguided, misconducted, foolish, wild, infelicitous, penny wise and pound foolish, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.

Newness

N newness, novelty, recency, immaturity, youth, gloss of novelty, innovation, renovation, modernism, mushroom, parvenu, latest fashion, new, novel, recent, fresh, green, young, evergreen, raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty, virgin, untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten, fire-new, span-new, late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau, new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged, of yesterday, just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion, in, hip, vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid, fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint, spick and span, newly, afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day, latterly, of late, not long ago, a short time ago, di novello tutto par bello, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius, una scopa nuova spazza bene.

Physical Pain

N physical pain, pain, suffering, sufferance, suffrance, bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain, mental suffering, dolour, ache, aching, smart, shoot, shooting, twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris, hurt, cut, sore, soreness, discomfort, malaise, cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica, tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis, spasm, cramp, nightmare, ephialtes, crick, stitch, thrill, convulsion, throe, throb, pang, colic, kink, sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain, excruciating pain, anguish, agony, torment, torture, rack, cruciation, crucifixion, martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection, in pain, in a state of pain, pained, gouty, podagric, torminous, painful, aching, sore, raw, Special Sensation (1) Touch.

Cold

N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.

Color

N color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush, tone, key, pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color, three primaries, spectrum, chromatic dispersion, broken color, secondary color, tertiary color, local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective, chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy, chromatism, chromatography, chromatology, prism, spectroscope, spectrograph, spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments), pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain, medium, mordant, oil paint, colored, colorific, tingent, tinctorial, chromatic, prismatic, full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored, doubly-dyed, polychromatic, chromatogenous, tingible, bright, vivid, intense, deep, fresh, unfaded, rich, gorgeous, gay, gaudy, florid, gay, garish, rainbow-colored, multihued, showy, flaunting, flashy, raw, crude, glaring, flaring, discordant, inharmonious, mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.


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