raw

Plural: raws

Noun

• A sore, exposed, or irritated spot on the skin.
• informal terms for nakedness
  • "in the raw"
• An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
• A galled place; an inveterate sore.
• A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
• A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
• A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.

Adjective Satellite

• (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
  • "raw wool"
  • "raw sugar"
• having the surface exposed and painful
  • "a raw wound"
• not processed or refined
  • "raw sewage"
• devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
  • "raw fury"
  • "you may kill someone someday with your raw power"
• brutally unfair or harsh
  • "received raw treatment from his friends"
  • "a raw deal"
• not processed or subjected to analysis
  • "raw data"
  • "the raw cost of production"
• untempered and unrefined
  • "raw talent"
  • "raw beauty"
• hurting
• unpleasantly cold and damp
• used of wood and furniture
  • "raw wood"
• lacking training or experience
  • "raw recruits"
• (used informally) completely unclothed

Adjective

• Uncooked, unprocessed, or in its natural state; inexperienced.
• not treated with heat to prepare it for eating

Adj

• (of food) Not cooked.
• (of food) Not cooked.
• Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
• Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
• Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
• New or inexperienced.
• Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
• Uncorrected, without analysis.
• Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
• Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
• Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
• Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
• Without a condom.
• Not covered; bare; bald.

Adv

• Without a condom.

Verb

• To sexually penetrate without a condom.

Examples

• a raw beginner
• a raw description of the American political arena
• a raw voice
• a raw wind
• a raw wound
• His losing streak left him feeling a bit RAW, but ready for a rematch.
• His RAW talent for Scrabble was evident, even though he was a novice player.
• I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.
• raw cane sugar
• raw emotion
• raw sewage
• There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.
• We did it raw.

Synonyms

altogether, bare-ass, bare-assed, birthday suit, bleak, crude, cutting, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked, naked as a jaybird, natural, new, peeled, rude, sensitive, sore, stark naked, tender, unsanded, condomless, pristine, pure, raw, unprocessed, unrefined, untouched, untreated

Antonyms

cooked, contaminated, impure, manufactured, modified, processed, refined

Anagrams of raw