Anagram Solver

Definitions for Rawness

[1] uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
[2] not having undergone processes of preparing, dressing, finishing, refining, or manufacture: raw cotton.
[3] unnaturally or painfully exposed, as flesh, by removal of the skin or natural integument.
[4] painfully open, as a sore or wound.
[5] crude in quality or character; not tempered or refined by art or taste: raw humor.
[6] ignorant, inexperienced, or untrained: a raw recruit.
[7] brutally or grossly frank: a raw portrayal of human passions.
[8] brutally harsh or unfair: a raw deal; receiving raw treatment from his friends.
[9] disagreeably damp and chilly, as the weather or air: a raw, foggy day at the beach.
[10] not diluted, as alcoholic spirits: raw whiskey.
[11] unprocessed or unevaluated: raw data.
[12] a sore or irritated place, as on the flesh.
[13] unrefined sugar, oil, etc.
[14] in the raw , in the natural, uncultivated, or unrefined state: nature in the raw. Informal . in the nude; naked: sunbathing in the raw.
[15] (of food) not cooked raw onion
[16] (prenominal) in an unfinished, natural, or unrefined state; not treated by manufacturing or other processes raw materials for making steel ; raw brick
[17] (of an edge of material) unhemmed; liable to fray
[18] (of the skin, a wound, etc) having the surface exposed or abraded, esp painfully
[19] ignorant, inexperienced, or immature a raw recruit
[20] (prenominal) not selected or modified raw statistics
[21] frank or realistic a raw picture of the breakdown of a marriage
[22] (of spirits) undiluted
[23] mainly US coarse, vulgar, or obscene
[24] mainly US recently done; fresh raw paintwork
[25] (of the weather) harshly cold and damp
[26] informal unfair; unjust (esp in the phrase a raw deal )
[27] the raw British informal a sensitive point his criticism touched me on the raw
[28] in the raw informal without clothes; naked in a natural or unmodified state life in the raw

Words related to Rawness

rawimmaturity, greenness, innocence, ineptness

Words nearby Rawness

rawraving, ravioli, ravish, ravishing, ravishment, raw, raw bar, raw deal, raw fibers, raw material, raw milk

Origin of Rawness

before 1000; Middle English; Old English hrēaw, hrǣw; cognate with Dutch rauw, German roh; akin to Latin crūdus raw (see crude), cruor blood, Greek kréas raw flesh

Other words from Rawness

raw·ish , adjective
raw·ish·ness , noun
raw·ly , adverb
raw·ness , noun
half-raw , adjective
sem·i·raw , adjective
sem·i·raw·ly , adverb
sem·i·raw·ness , noun

Word origin for Rawness

Old English hreaw ; related to Old High German hrao , Old Norse hrār raw, Latin cruor thick blood, Greek kreas meat

Synonyms for Rawness

amateurishness, greenness, immaturity, ineptness, innocence, inexpertness