raw

[raw] /rɔ/
adjective, rawer, rawest.
1.
uncooked, as articles of food:
a raw carrot.
2.
not having undergone processes of preparing, dressing, finishing, refining, or manufacture:
raw cotton.
3.
unnaturally or painfully exposed, as flesh, by removal of the skin or natural integument.
4.
painfully open, as a sore or wound.
5.
crude in quality or character; not tempered or refined by art or taste:
raw humor.
6.
ignorant, inexperienced, or untrained:
a raw recruit.
7.
brutally or grossly frank:
a raw portrayal of human passions.
8.
brutally harsh or unfair:
a raw deal; receiving raw treatment from his friends.
9.
disagreeably damp and chilly, as the weather or air:
a raw, foggy day at the beach.
10.
not diluted, as alcoholic spirits:
raw whiskey.
11.
unprocessed or unevaluated:
raw data.
noun
12.
a sore or irritated place, as on the flesh.
13.
unrefined sugar, oil, etc.
Idioms
14.
in the raw,
  1. in the natural, uncultivated, or unrefined state:
    nature in the raw.
  2. Informal. in the nude; naked:
    sunbathing in the raw.
Origin
before 1000; Middle English; Old English hrēaw, hrǣw; cognate with Dutch rauw, German roh; akin to Latin crūdus raw (see crude), cruor blood, Greek kréas raw flesh
Related forms
rawish, adjective
rawishness, noun
rawly, adverb
rawness, noun
half-raw, adjective
semiraw, adjective
semirawly, adverb
semirawness, noun
Synonyms
2. unprepared, rough, makeshift. Raw, crude, rude refer to something not in a finished or highly refined state. Raw applies particularly to material not yet changed by a process, by manufacture, or by preparation for consumption: raw cotton; raw leather. Crude refers to that which still needs refining: crude petroleum. Rude refers to what is still in a condition of rough simplicity or in a makeshift or roughly made form: rude agricultural implements; the rude bridge that arched the flood. 6. undisciplined, green, unskilled, unpracticed. 9. cold, wet. 10. straight, neat.
Antonyms
1. cooked.
British Dictionary definitions for in the raw

raw

/rɔː/
adjective
1.
(of food) not cooked: raw onion
2.
(prenominal) in an unfinished, natural, or unrefined state; not treated by manufacturing or other processes: raw materials for making steel, raw brick
3.
(of an edge of material) unhemmed; liable to fray
4.
(of the skin, a wound, etc) having the surface exposed or abraded, esp painfully
5.
ignorant, inexperienced, or immature: a raw recruit
6.
(prenominal) not selected or modified: raw statistics
7.
frank or realistic: a raw picture of the breakdown of a marriage
8.
(of spirits) undiluted
9.
(mainly US) coarse, vulgar, or obscene
10.
(mainly US) recently done; fresh: raw paintwork
11.
(of the weather) harshly cold and damp
12.
(informal) unfair; unjust (esp in the phrase a raw deal)
noun
13.
(Brit, informal) the raw, a sensitive point: his criticism touched me on the raw
14.
in the raw
  1. (informal) without clothes; naked
  2. in a natural or unmodified state: life in the raw
Derived Forms
rawish, adjective
rawly, adverb
rawness, noun
Word Origin
Old English hreaw; related to Old High German hrao, Old Norse hrār raw, Latin cruor thick blood, Greek kreas meat
Word Origin and History for in the raw

raw

adj.

Old English hreaw "uncooked, raw," from Proto-Germanic *khrawaz (cf. Old Norse hrar, Danish raa, Old Saxon hra, Middle Dutch rau, Dutch rauw, Old High German hrawer, German roh), from PIE root *kreue- (1) "raw flesh" (cf. Sanskrit kravih "raw flesh," krura- "bloody, raw, hard;" Greek kreas "flesh;" Latin crudus "not cooked," cruor "thick blood;" Old Irish cru, Lithuanian kraujas, Old Church Slavonic kruvi "blood;" Old English hrot "thick fluid, serum").

Meaning "tender, sore" is from late 14c.; of persons, "inexperienced" from 1560s; of weather, "damp and chilly" first recorded 1540s. Related: Rawly; rawness. Raw material is from 1796, with sense of "in a rudimental condition, unfinished." Phrase in the raw "naked" (1921) is from the raw "exposed flesh," attested from 1823. Raw deal "harsh treatment" attested by 1893.

in the raw in Medicine

raw (rô)
adj. raw·er, raw·est

  1. Having subcutaneous tissue exposed.

  2. Inflamed; sore.

Slang definitions & phrases for in the raw

in the raw

adjective phrase
  1. Naked; in the buff: Leonotra always liked sleeping ''in the raw,'' as she called it
  2. Without amenity or polish; relatively crude and primitive: Up there they lived life in the raw/ His work is sculpture in the raw (1930s+)

raw

adjective
  1. Inexperienced; unfledged; callow: a raw young actress (1561+)
  2. Harsh; inhospitable: a raw reception (1546+)
  3. Nude; naked; in the raw: You can't go raw on this beach, ma'am (1931+)
  4. Vulgar; salacious; dirty; raunchy: He offended us all with a very raw story (1940s+)

Idioms and Phrases with in the raw

in the raw

see: in the altogether

raw

In addition to the idiom beginning with raw also see: in the altogether (raw)