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1. (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
   "raw wool"; "raw sugar"
   - natural, rude
    
2. Having the surface exposed and painful
   "a raw wound"
    
3. Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
    
4. Not processed or refined
   "raw sewage"
    
5. Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
   "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power"
   - naked
    
6. Brutally unfair or harsh
   "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal"
    
7. Not processed or subjected to analysis
   "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"
   - crude
    
8. Untempered and unrefined
   "raw talent"; "raw beauty"
    
9. Hurting
   - sensitive, sore, tender
    
10. Unpleasantly cold and damp
    - bleak, cutting
     
11. Used of wood and furniture
    "raw wood"
    - unsanded
     
12. Lacking training or experience
    "raw recruits"
    - new
     
13. (used informally) completely unclothed
    - bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked

1. Informal term for nakedness
   "in the raw"
   - altogether, birthday suit

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

Sounds like: roar

Derived forms: raws, rawer, rawest

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

Type of: nakedness, nudeness, nudity

Antonym: cooked

Encyclopedia: RAW