1. (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
   "raw wool"; "raw sugar";
   - natural, rude
    
2. Not processed or refined
   "raw sewage"
    
3. Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
   "She prefers raw vegetables in her salads"
    
4. Not processed or subjected to analysis
   "raw data"; "the raw cost of production";
   - crude
    
5. In an unadorned, unprotected, or natural state, often suggesting stark exposure or primal intensity
   "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power";
   - naked
    
6. Untempered and unrefined
   "raw talent"; "raw beauty"
    
7. Lacking training or experience
   "raw recruits";
   - new
    
8. Having the surface exposed and painful
   "a raw wound"
    
9. (of body tissue or a wound) painful, inflamed, or easily hurt
   "the raw spot on his jaw";
   - sensitive, sore, tender
    
10. Unpleasantly cold and damp
    "raw winds of the North Atlantic";
    - bleak, cutting
     
11. (used of wood and furniture) not sanded or polished
    "raw wood";
    - unsanded
     
12. Brutally unfair or harsh
    "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal"
     
13. [informal] Completely unclothed
    "I felt in the raw and powerless, stripped of my manhood and black against the whole white world";
    - bare-assed [N. Amer, informal], bare-ass [N. Amer, informal], in the altogether [informal], in the buff [informal], in the raw [informal], peeled [informal], naked as a jaybird [US, informal], stark naked [informal], buck naked [N. Amer, informal]

1. The state of being without clothing or covering of any kind
   "in the raw";
   - nakedness, nudity, nudeness, altogether [informal], birthday suit [informal]

1. India's external intelligence agency
   - Research and Analysis Wing [Asia], R&AW [Asia]

Sounds like: raquets, ras, ra

Derived forms: rawer, raws, rawest

See also: cold, green [informal], half-baked, inexperienced, inexperient [non-standard], injured, open, overt, painful, rare, unanalysed [Brit, Cdn], unanalyzed [N. Amer], unclothed, uncooked, underdone, unfair, unfinished, unjust, unpolished, unprocessed, untoasted, untreated

Type of: condition, status

Antonym: cooked

Encyclopedia: Raw, Uncut, and X-Rated