raw

Adjective

• (used informally) completely unclothed

• lacking training or experience
  • the new men were eager to fight
    
  • raw recruits
    

• used of wood and furniture
  • raw wood
    

• unpleasantly cold and damp
  • bleak winds of the North Atlantic
    

• hurting
  • the tender spot on his jaw
    

• untempered and unrefined
  • raw talent
    
  • raw beauty
    

• not processed or subjected to analysis
  • raw data
    
  • the raw cost of production
    
  • only the crude vital statistics
    

• brutally unfair or harsh
  • received raw treatment from his friends
    
  • a raw deal
    

• devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
  • naked ambition
    
  • raw fury
    
  • you may kill someone someday with your raw power
    

• not processed or refined
  • raw sewage
    

• not treated with heat to prepare it for eating

• having the surface exposed and painful
  • a raw wound
    

• (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
  • natural yogurt
    
  • natural produce
    
  • raw wool
    
  • raw sugar
    
  • bales of rude cotton
    

Noun

• informal terms for nakedness
  • in the raw
    
  • in the altogether
    
  • in his birthday suit
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bare-assed , bare-ass , in the altogether , in the buff , in the raw , peeled , naked as a jaybird , stark naked , new , raw(a) , unsanded , bleak , cutting , sensitive , sore , tender , crude , naked , natural , rude(a) , altogether , birthday suit