Definition of: raw

(rô) adjective
1. Not changed or prepared by cooking; in its natural state; uncooked.
2. Not covered with whole skin; abraded.
3. Bleak; chilling: a raw wind.
4. In a natural state; crude; unprepared, as wool, drugs, etc.; also, untempered or without tone, as colors; unrefined; unfinished.
5. Newly done; fresh: raw paint, raw work.
6. Inexperienced; undisciplined: a raw recruit.
7. Unrefined; crude; off-color: a raw joke.
8. Unexposed: said of photographic film.
—noun
1. A sore or abraded spot; a sensitive point.
2. The state of being raw, untamed, or unspoiled: nature in the raw. [OE hrēaw]
—raw′ly adverb
—raw′ness noun