Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Uncooked.
- adjective Being in a natural condition; not processed or refined.
- adjective Not finished, covered, or coated.
- adjective Not having been subjected to adjustment, treatment, or analysis.
- adjective Undeveloped or unused.
- adjective Recently finished; fresh.
- adjective Inexperienced or untrained.
- adjective Having subcutaneous tissue exposed.
- adjective Inflamed; sore.
- adjective Unpleasantly damp and chilly.
- adjective Powerfully impressive; stark.
- adjective Direct in description and explicit in realistic detail.
- adjective Crude, vulgar, or coarse.
- adjective Nude; naked.
- adjective Engaged in without the protection of a condom.
- adjective Done in a rough or unrestrained manner. Used of sex.
- adverb Slang Without a condom; unprotected.
- idiom (in the raw) In a crude or unrefined state.
- idiom (in the raw) Nude; naked.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
row . - noun An untrained mustang or cow-pony.
- Existing in the state of natural growth or formation; unchanged in constitution by subjection to heat or other alterative agency; uncooked, or chemically unaltered: as, raw meat, fish, oysters, etc.; most fruits are eaten raw; raw medicinal substances; raw (that is, unburnt) umber.
- In an unchanged condition as regards some process of fabrication; unwrought or unmanufactured.
- In a rudimental condition; crude in quality or state; primitively or coarsely constituted; unfinished; untempered; coarse; rough; harsh.
- Harshly sharp or chilly, as the weather; bleak, especially from cold moisture; characterized by chilly dampness.
- Crude or rude from want of experience, skill, or reflection; of immature character or quality; awkward; untrained; unfledged; illinstructed or ill-considered: said of persons and their actions or ideas.
- Looking like raw meat, as from lividness or removal of the skin; deprived or appearing destitute of the natural integument: as, a raw sore; a raw spot on a horse.
- Feeling sore, as from abrasion of the skin; harshly painful; galled.
- In ceramics, unbaked—that is, either fresh from the potters' wheel or the mold, or merely dried without the use of artificial heat.
- Synonyms Raw, Crude. These words, the same in ultimate origin and in earlier meaning, have drawn somewhat apart. Raw continues to apply to food which is not yet cooked, as raw potatoes; but crude has lost that meaning. Raw is applied to material not yet manufactured, as cotton, silk; crude rather to that which is not refined, as petroleum, or matured, as a theory or an idea.
- noun A raw article, material, or product.
- noun A raw, galled, or sore place; an established sore, as on a horse; hence, soreness or sensitiveness of feeling or temper.
- noun In botany, same as
rag , 3 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot.
- adjective Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat;
- adjective Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried
- adjective obsolete, obsolete Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.
- adjective obsolete Not distilled.
- adjective Not spun or twisted.
- adjective Not mixed or diluted.
- adjective Not tried; not melted and strained.
- adjective Not tanned.
- adjective Not trimmed, covered, or folded under.
- adjective obsolete, obsolete Not covered; bare.
- adjective obsolete Bald.
- adjective Deprived of skin; galled.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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V. ii.119 (330,9) and yet but raw neither in respect of his quick sail] [W: but slow] I believe _raw_ to be the right word; it is a word of great latitude; _raw_ signifies _unripe, immature_, thence _unformed, imperfect, unskilful_.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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"The Washington Post" reports about what it calls raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed and unreported in this election so far.
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Next in declining order of healing effectiveness is what I call a raw food healing diet or cleansing diet.
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser
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I like to buy 'em a little farther back even than wholesale -- when they are what you call raw resources.
The Man Next Door Emerson Hough 1890
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Although the cost of any article may be reduced in its ultimate analysis to the quantity of labour by which it was produced; yet it is usual, in a certain state of the manufacture of most substances, to call them by the term raw material.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage 1831
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And we do track what we call our raw capture ratio, which is the number of orders versus the raw bids that we did.
Graham CEO Discusses F2Q2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha 2010
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He is a young professional with what he describes as a raw hunger to make as much money as possible.
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He is a young professional with what he describes as a raw hunger to make as much money as possible.
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In Nevada, where the party is making a big push for Reid, Democrats are slightly ahead of Republicans in raw early-vote totals, although Democrats are trailing slightly in turnout percentage.
Democrats hope early voters will give them an edge Shailagh Murray 2010
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In Nevada, where the party is making a big push for Reid, Democrats are slightly ahead of Republicans in raw early-vote totals, although Democrats are trailing slightly in turnout percentage.
Democrats bank on early voting to bridge enthusiasm gap Shailagh Murray 2010
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“Well, good news,” continued Colbert, “because the next big start-up craze in Silicon Valley is ‘raw water’… water that’s unfiltered, untreated and unsterilised. Wow, drinking that sounds unsane!”
Why are people thirsty for 'raw water'? Tim Smedley 2022
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Vegans can be as strict or lax as they want to be in their food choices: the International Vegetarian Union’s websiteincludes vegan-friendly reminders about baking pans greased with animal fat, grain cereals that include animal-based glycerin, and sugar refined with bone charcoal. Then there’s raw veganism, which is an offshoot of veganism in which none of the food can be cooked. Take that a step further and you get “mono meals,” the idea that the stomach should only digest one type of food at a time.
A Brief History of Veganism Claire Suddath 2008
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