- uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- not having undergone processes of preparing, dressing, finishing, refining, or manufacture: raw cotton.
- unnaturally or painfully exposed, as flesh, by removal of the skin or natural integument.
- painfully open, as a sore or wound.
- crude in quality or character; not tempered or refined by art or taste: raw humor.
- ignorant, inexperienced, or untrained: a raw recruit.
- brutally or grossly frank: a raw portrayal of human passions.
- brutally harsh or unfair: a raw deal; receiving raw treatment from his friends.
- disagreeably damp and chilly, as the weather or air: a raw, foggy day at the beach.
- not diluted, as alcoholic spirits: raw whiskey.
- unprocessed or unevaluated: raw data.
- a sore or irritated place, as on the flesh.
- unrefined sugar, oil, etc.
- in the raw,
- in the natural, uncultivated, or unrefined state: nature in the raw.
- in the nude; naked: sunbathing in the raw.
- (of food) not cooked
- in an unfinished, natural, or unrefined state; not treated by manufacturing or other processes
- (of an edge of material) unhemmed; liable to fray
- (of the skin, a wound, etc) having the surface exposed or abraded, esp painfully
- ignorant, inexperienced, or immature
- not selected or modified
- frank or realistic
- (of spirits) undiluted
- coarse, vulgar, or obscene
- recently done; fresh
- (of the weather) harshly cold and damp
- unfair; unjust (esp in the phrase a raw deal)
- a sensitive point
- in the raw
- without clothes; naked
- in a natural or unmodified state
