'RAW' definitions:
Definition of 'raw'
From: WordNet
adjective
(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" [syn: natural, raw(a), rude(a)]
adjective
Having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound"
adjective
Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating [ant: cooked]
adjective
Not processed or refined; "raw sewage"
adjective
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, raw]
adjective
Brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal"
adjective
Not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" [syn: crude, raw]
adjective
Untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty"
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adjective
adjective
Used of wood and furniture; "raw wood" [syn: raw(a), unsanded]
adjective
Lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: raw, new]
adjective
(used informally) completely unclothed [syn: bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked]
noun
Informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit" [syn: raw, altogether, birthday suit]
Definition of 'Raw'
From: GCIDE
- Raw \Raw\ (r[add]), a. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- And all his sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind. "A raw and gusty day." --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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Raw'
From: GCIDE
- Raw \Raw\, n. 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. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'raw'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Rabelaisian,
- rank,
- rankling,
- rare,
- raw nerve,
- red,
- ribald,
- rigorous,
- ripening,
- risque,
- rough,
- rude,
- sappy,
- scatologic,
- screaming,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- sempervirent,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shrieking,
- Siberian,
- 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
Acronyms for 'RAW'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Read-After-Write (WAW, WAR)