raw material

Noun

Meaning

material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

staple material data stock timber commodity ore stuff textile natural resource raw substrate iron ore grist natural resources
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Antonyms

consumer durables consumer goods consumer good definitive version completed version finalized draft
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Hypernyms

material stuff

Hyponyms

ash OAK pine cotton feedstock

Examples

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. William S. Burroughs

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Aldo Leopold

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. Branch Rickey

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. Eric Hobsbawm

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it. Michael Chabon

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber. Maxim Gorky

Close letter words and terms

raw gas raw gold raw information Raw Materials raw meat raw milk