Raw vs Trivial - What's the difference?

Raw is a related term of trivial.

As an abbreviation raw

is (games) the rules as written: the actual rules appearing in the rulebook, as opposed to house rules, or as opposed to the rules that might have been intended (in the event of a mistake in the rulebook).

As an adjective trivial is

ignorable; of little significance or value.

As a noun trivial is

(obsolete) any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

raw

English

Adjective

(er)

Of food: not cooked.

Not treated or processed (of materials, products etc.); in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.

Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw . Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}

New or inexperienced.

Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.

Of data, statistics etc: uncorrected, without analysis.

* 2010 , "Under the volcano", (The Economist), 16 Oct 2010:

What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.

Of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold.

a raw wind

* Shakespeare

a raw and gusty day

(obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.

* Spenser

with scull all raw

Synonyms

* See also * (without a condom)

Derived terms

* (l)

Adverb

(head)

(slang) Without a condom.

Noun

(en noun)

(sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.

* 1800 , Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer , Volume 22, page 287,

With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur.

* 1921 , , The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry , Volume 13, Part 1, page 149,

Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.

* 1939 , The Commercial and Financial Chronicle , Volume 148, Part 2, page 2924,

The world sugar contract closed 1 to 3 points net higher, with sales of only 36 lots. London raws sold at 8s. 4½d., and futures there were unchanged to 3d. higher.

Anagrams

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trivial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Ignorable; of little significance or value.

* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:

"All which details, I have no doubt, Jones , who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial , twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."

Commonplace, ordinary.

* De Quincey

As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial , and incapable of labour.

Concerned with or involving trivia.

(biology) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.

(mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.

(mathematics) Self-evident.

Pertaining to the trivium.

(philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

Synonyms

* (of little significance) ignorable, negligible, trifling

Antonyms

* nontrivial * important * significant * radical * fundamental

Derived terms

* trivia

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

(Skelton)

(Wood)

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