Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: rawness
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ɔnɪs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: inexperience, rawness
    Meaning: lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience; "procedural inexperience created difficulties"; "their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops"
  • Synonyms: tenderness, soreness, rawness
    Meaning: a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on"
  • Synonyms: incompleteness, rawness
    Meaning: the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect; "the study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it stimulated further research"; "the rawness of his diary made it unpublishable"
  • Synonyms: rawness
    Meaning: a chilly dampness; "the rawness of the midnight air"
Usage examples
  • Icicles from burst water-pipes hung along the skirt of his brown dog-skin overcoat; his plush cap, which he never took off in the house, was a pulp of ice and coal-dust; his red hands were cracked to rawness; he chewed the stub of a cigar.