raw Definition

raw
adj

1. Said of meat, vegetables, etc: not cooked.

Thesaurus: uncooked, rare, bloody, fresh, undone.
2. Not processed, purified or refined.

Example: raw silk
Thesaurus: natural, untreated, rough, crude, uncut, unrefined, unprocessed, unstained, untanned; Antonym: processed, refined.
3. Said of alcoholic spirit: undiluted.
4. Said of statistics, data, etc: not analysed.
5. Said of a person: not trained or experienced.

Thesaurus: inexperienced, callow, green, immature, unseasoned, untried.
6. Said of a wound, etc: with a sore, inflamed surface.
7. Said of the weather: cold and damp.

Thesaurus: nasty, cold, bleak, biting, chill, windy.
8. Said of an edge of material: not finished off and so liable to fray.
9. Particularly sensitive.

Example: touched a raw nerve

noun

1. A sore, inflamed or sensitive place.

Derivative: rawness
noun

Idiom: in the raw

In a natural or crude state.

colloq
Naked.
Thesaurus: naked, nude, bare, unclothed, in the buff (slang).

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon hreaw.