Nasty and Raw

Nasty

Nasty adjective - Causing or feeling bodily pain.
Usage example: a nasty cut on my lip

Raw and nasty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Raw" instead an adjective "Nasty".

Nearby Word: nastily

Raw

Raw adjective - Marked by wet and windy conditions.
Usage example: the day of the funeral was one of those bleak, blustery, raw winter days that was as gloomy as our spirits

Nasty and raw are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Nasty" instead an adjective "Raw".

Nearby Word: rawness

Both words in one sentence

  • Stance System Vishnu is a more passive stance, mainly inflicting Standard Status Effects on the party (although it does have the nasty Vaikunta spell), and Shiva focuses on dealing raw damage.
    Source: Stance System
  • Music / Converge Lyrical Dissonance: Jane Doe, one of the angriest and emotionally raw albums of all ever was written about a nasty breakup.
  • Skilled, but Naïve Main characters in general have a nasty habit of going beyond their experience levels and relying on raw talent and bravado, which frequently gets the rest of the group into trouble as well.
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