rawest

adj.not cooked, prepared
adj.exposed, tender, referring to skin
adj.inexperienced
adj.vulgar, nasty
adj.harsh, unpleasant, referring to weather

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Word Origin & History

Old English hreaw "uncooked, raw," from Proto-Germanic *khrawaz (cf. Old Norse hrar, Danish raa, Old Saxon hra, Middle Dutch rau, Dutch rauw, Old High German hrawer, German roh), from PIE root *kreue- (1) "raw flesh" (cf. Sanskrit kravih "raw flesh," krura- "bloody, raw, hard;" Greek kreas "flesh;" Latin crudus "not cooked," cruor "thick blood;" Old Irish cru, Lithuanian kraujas, Old Church Slavonic kruvi "blood;" Old English hrot "thick fluid, serum").

Meaning "tender, sore" is from late 14c.; of persons, "inexperienced" from 1560s; of weather, "damp and chilly" first recorded 1540s. Related: Rawly; rawness. Raw material is from 1796, with sense of "in a rudimental condition, unfinished." Phrase in the raw "naked" (1921) is from the raw "exposed flesh," attested from 1823. Raw deal "harsh treatment" attested by 1893.

Example Sentences forrawest

I was probably the highest private and rawest recruit in the army.

They were about the rawest lot of recruits the sergeant had ever tackled.

The officer in charge of them turned to one of the rawest of his men.

"It is just a chance—just the rawest of all chances," he went on, ignoring my query.

He had touched the old south in its rawest point and he was too new a citizen.

There's a partial mass-energy conversion in its rawest form.

It is a bright but chilly morning, one of November's rawest efforts.

Primitive society held property in common in the gens and clan, but only in the rawest and most undeveloped stage.

But the oldest Christian amongst them needed the exhortation as much as the rawest recruit in the ranks.

A 'Fact,' in the common use of the word, is a particular observation: it is the material of science in its rawest state.