possible profanity
noun
- Informal terms for nakedness.
- usage: "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit"
- synonyms: altogether, birthday suit
adjective
- Used especially of commodities. ( being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes)
- usage: "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"
- Having the surface exposed and painful.
- usage: "a raw wound"
- Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating.
- Not processed or refined.
- usage: "raw sewage"
- Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure.
- usage: "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power"
- synonyms: naked
- Brutally unfair or harsh.
- usage: "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal"
- Not processed or subjected to analysis.
- usage: "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
- synonyms: crude
- Untempered and unrefined.
- usage: "raw talent"; "raw beauty"
- Hurting.
- usage: "the tender spot on his jaw"
- Unpleasantly cold and damp.
- usage: "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
- Used of wood and furniture.
- usage: "raw wood"
- synonyms: unsanded
- Lacking training or experience.
- usage: "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"
- synonyms: new
- Used informally. ( completely unclothed).
- synonyms: bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked
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