Englishraw
adjective
2 the cost of raw materials is likely to rise | raw silk:
unprocessed, untreated, unrefined, crude, natural, unmilled, unprepared, unfinished;
green.
▷antonyms refined, processed.
3 a group of raw recruits:
inexperienced, new, lacking experience, untrained, unskilled, unpracticed, untried, untested, unseasoned, untutored, unschooled;
callow, immature, green, ignorant, naive, unsophisticated;
informal wet behind the ears.
▷antonyms experienced, skilled.
4 his skin was raw in places:
sore, red, inflamed, painful, sensitive, tender;
abraded, chafed, skinned, open, exposed, unhealed, bloody;
technical excoriated.
5 it was a raw morning with a bitter east wind:
bleak, cold, chilly, chilling, chill, freezing, icy, icy-cold, wintry, bitter, biting, piercing, penetrating, sharp, keen, damp, wet;
informal nippy;
British, informal parky, Baltic.
▷antonyms warm, balmy.
6 the raw emotions depicted in such stories:
strong, intense, passionate, fervent, vehement, powerful, violent, acute;
undisguised, unconcealed, unrestrained, uninhibited.
7 raw, contemporary images of Latin America:
realistic, true to life, unembellished, unvarnished, gritty, naked, bare, brutal, harsh;
frank, candid, honest, forthright, straightforward, direct, blunt, outspoken;
informal warts and all.
▷antonyms unrealistic, idealized.
8 raw but authentic artistic power:
unsophisticated, crude, rough, unpolished, unrefined, undeveloped.
□ in the raw
informal
I slept in the raw:
naked, nude, bare, in the nude, stark naked, with nothing on, stripped, unclothed, undressed, uncovered, in a state of nature, disrobed, unclad, undraped, exposed;
French au naturel;
informal without a stitch on, in one's birthday suit, in the altogether, in the buff, as naked as the day one was born, in the nuddy, mother naked;
British, informal starkers;
Scottish, informal in the scud, scuddy;
North American, informal bare-assed, buck naked;
Australian, informal bollocky;
British, vulgar slang bollock-naked.
▷antonyms clothed, dressed.