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Synonyms for raw

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for raw

not cooked

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in a natural state and still not prepared for use

lacking expert, careful craftsmanship

lacking experience and the knowledge gained from it

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Synonyms for raw

informal terms for nakedness

(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes

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having the surface exposed and painful

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not treated with heat to prepare it for eating

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not processed or refined

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devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment

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brutally unfair or harsh

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not processed or subjected to analysis

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untempered and unrefined

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hurting

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unpleasantly cold and damp

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used of wood and furniture

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lacking training or experience

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This, their debut album, bursts with the rawest rock riffs this side of The Cult, whose influence pervades the set.
In even the rawest situation we can both be comfortable during an all-day stint on stand.
That's what has caused this crisis to come upon us - not the absence of a political way forward but terrorism in its rawest form".
We should support them; this is the rawest deal any nation could get," Yaraghi said.
As Andrew Coyne noted in the National Post, while his paper was carrying a number of articles on parliamentary reform, the Liberals gave some of the rawest displays of contempt for anything like this that they had ever shown.
He consistently exposes the rawest and bitterest betrayals of the public trust without becoming embittered himself.
(Poor Michel gets the rawest deal, since scenario gives him nothing to do but sulk.)
And movies: Full Metal Jacket (Vietnam at its rawest), Gallipoli (one of the most powerful of anti-war films), When We Were Kings (the story of Mohammed Ali's 1974 heavyweight championship fight against George Foreman in Zaire).
Two cases in point: When director John Singleton's acclaimed and profitable movie Boyz 'n the Hood was still a script, Simmons wanted to produce it, but Columbia Studios then-president Frank Price was loathe to set up a film deal with a man who came to meetings dressed like a messenger and whose conversation was filled with the rawest of obscenities.
The Nation tries to speak for those who get the rawest deal from society: its poor, its powerless, and its oppressed.
Based in large part on the women who surrounded Jones during his childhood in western Massachusetts, "Diane" centers on a widow who is in near-constant motion doing for others, whether it's visiting her fatally ill cousin, dropping off food for a laid-up neighbor, doling out macaroni and cheese at her church's soup kitchen or, in the film's rawest moments, letting herself into the apartment of her son (Jake Lacy) to make sure he hasn't relapsed back into drug addiction.
Two tries in three minutes from Jack Hughes and Ryan Atkins, converted by Stefan Ratchford, left boss Radford sweating even on the rawest of nights.
This is music at its rawest form; get ready to hum and air tap along to the artists' heartfelt, reflective, folk-inspired tunes.