raw

1. 1

   (of food) Not cooked.

   • There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.
   • He ate raw beef for dinner.
2. 2

   (of food) Not cooked.; Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.

   • I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.
3. 3

   Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)

   • raw cane sugar
   • raw sewage
4. 4

   Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.

   • a raw wound
5. 5

   New or inexperienced.

   • a raw beginner
6. 6

   Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.

   • a raw voice
7. 7

   Uncorrected, without analysis.

   • What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
8. 8

   Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)

   • a raw wind
9. 9

   Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)

   • raw emotion
10. 10

    Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.

    • a raw description of the American political arena

syn. raw · coarse · crude · natural · pure · pristine · unalloyed · unmixed · unprocessed · unrefined · untouched · untreated

ant. contaminated · impure · manufactured · modified · processed · refined

1. 1

   Without a condom.slang

   • We did it raw.

1. 1

   An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.

   • With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur.
   • Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.
2. 2

   A galled place; an inveterate sore.

3. 3

   A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.broadlyfiguratively

   • In a moment Tom was angry. The women saw that Bill had touched him upon the raw, and they went out of the room to prepare a meal.
4. 4

   Unadulterated narcotics, especially crack cocaineslanguncountable

   • The year is '94, in my trunk is raw
5. 5

   A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.slang

6. 6

   A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.slang

1. 1

   To sexually penetrate without a condom.slangtransitive