raw meaning
Meaning
Mobile
- Adjective: raw (rawer,rawest) ro
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
"raw wool"; "raw sugar"
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- Informal term for nakedness
"in the raw"
- altogether, birthday suit
Usage: Asia- India's external intelligence agency
- Research and Analysis Wing [Asia], r&aw [Asia]
Sounds like: roar
Derived forms: rawest, rawer, raws
See also: cold, half-baked, inexperienced, inexperient [non-standard], injured, open, overt, painful, rare, rawness, unanalysed [Brit, Cdn], unanalyzed [N. Amer], unclothed, uncooked, underdone, unfair, unfinished, unjust, unpolished, unprocessed, untoasted, untreated
Type of: nakedness, nudeness, nudity
Antonym: cooked
Encyclopedia: RAW
Raw Raw, Uncut, and X-Rated Raw, the Best of Lady Saw - (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
[American slang]
mod. vulgar; crude; raucous; untamed.
• I've had enough of your raw humor.
• That joke was a little raw.
[Business]
adjective [usually before noun]1
raw substances are in their natural state and have not yet been changed, used, or made into sth else:
He imports the raw cotton from India.
Raw steel production is at about two thirds of capacity.
2
raw data has not yet been organized into a form in which it can easily be used or understood:
It should not be forgotten that this is raw data, not refined information.
The company decided to publish the raw earnings figures.
IDIOMS
a raw deal
the fact of sb being treated unfairly:
Older workers often get a raw deal.
Examples
- Energy and raw material costs are skyrocketing.
- His literary style is still rather raw.
- Spring evenings are often cold and raw.
- Cold and raw things never agree with me.
- No wonder he felt so raw and alone.
- She was the raw material of a divinity.
- Bark may be used as raw material for paper-making.
- Do you call yourself a raw country girl?
- His knees and arms were raw and bleeding.
- I ordered all the raw recruits to be mustered.
Other Languages
- "raw" meaning in Chinese: adj. 1.(肉等)生的;未煮过的;未加工的,粗的;不搀水的,(酒精等)纯净的。2.未开化的;未熟的,生硬的,无...
- "raw" meaning in Japanese: 1raw n. 赤はだ; 痛いところ. 【前置詞+】 ◆in the raw 自然のままで swim in the...
- "raw" meaning in Russian: 1) ссадина, больное место Ex: to touch smb. on the raw зад...
- "raw" meaning in French: n. blessure, injure adj. vivant; cru, saignant; brut, n...