Something that's raw is uncooked. A ripe raw tomato tastes very different from one that's slowly roasted with olive oil.
A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot;
Noun
informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit"
Adjective S.
not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
Adjective S.
(used informally) completely unclothed
Adjective
not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal"
Adjective S.
inflamed and painful; "his throat was raw"; "had a sore throat"
Adjective S.
unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
Adjective S.
having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound"
Adjective S.
devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power"
Adjective S.
untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty"
Adjective S.
not processed or refined; "raw sewage"
superl.
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.
superl.
Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe;
unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a
raw recruit.
superl.
Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched
by art; unwrought.
superl.
Not distilled; as, raw water
superl.
Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton
superl.
Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits
superl.
Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow
superl.
Not tanned; as, raw hides
superl.
Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge
of a piece of metal or of cloth.
superl.
Not covered; bare.
superl.
Bald.
superl.
Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.
superl.
Sore, as if by being galled.
superl.
Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.
n.
A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch
one on the raw.
Raw
Like savage hackney coachmen, they know where there is a raw.
A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot;
Usage Examples
I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'
From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Other Usage ExamplesI need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.
I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.
I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible.
I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
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