raw

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
raw/rɔː/

▶adjective

• 1 (of food) uncooked.

• 2 (of a material or substance) in its natural state; not processed.

  ■ (of data) not organized, analysed, or evaluated.

• 3 (of the skin) red and painful, especially as the result of abrasion.

  ■ (of the nerves) very sensitive.

• 4 (of an emotion or quality) strong and undisguised.

• 5 new and lacking in experience in an activity or job.

• 6 (of the weather) bleak, cold, and damp.

• 7 US informal (of language) coarse or crude.

• 8 (of the edge of a piece of cloth) not having a hem or selvedge.

– phrases
in the raw

• 1 in its true state.

• 2 informal naked.

touch someone on the raw Brit. upset someone by referring to a sensitive subject.

– derivatives
rawish adjective,
rawly adverb,
rawness noun.

– origin OE hrēaw, of Gmc origin.