🥗 Not cooked 🆕 Inexperienced 🫣 Unclothed 🫣 Nudity 🤕 Sore or red 😠 Unfair or harsh 🌧️ Cold and damp 🪵 Unprocessed materials

raw

24 6.3

Harsh and unfair treatment that hurts people

adjective
/rɔ/

: crudo

The player felt he was given a raw deal when the referee made a questionable call during the game.
raw deal
raw emotion
touch a raw nerve

Examples

I got a raw deal.

The Big Sleep (1946)
I think Prince Philip actually gets a bit of a raw deal in the way he's presented.

Princes of the Palace - The Royal British Family (2016)
So I think women can get the raw end of the can get a raw deal.
Sometimes, some people get a raw deal.

Armageddon Time (2022)
You got a raw deal.

Irreplaceable You (2018)
Many believe that she received a raw deal in her job promotion due to favoritism.
After the layoffs, those remaining felt they had to accept a raw deal for the sake of keeping their jobs.

Synonyms

harsh

vsraw

40 3.9

Very strong and unpleasant to the senses, like bright light or bitter taste

is about unfair treatment or cruelty rather than sensory roughness

brutal

vsraw

26 4.1

Very direct and harsh in a way that can hurt people

is about unfair or cruel treatment rather than blunt personal manner

Antonyms

fair

∞ 1.0

Treating people equally and honestly

kind

905 1.0

Being helpful and caring toward other people

Idioms

in the raw

2 5.4

In a natural state without being changed

in the raw

NSFW

1 8.8

A person who has no clothes on

Compounds

raw material

Specialized

50 2.8

A natural thing used to make goods or energy

raw data

Specialized

28 3.5

Information collected before people process or check it

raw meat

17 1.0

Uncooked meat that people eat

raw deal

Informal

14 4.4

Unfair treatment that hurts someone and is not deserved

raw milk

12 3.4

Milk that is not heated to kill germs

raw talent

10 3.4

A natural ability that is strong but not yet trained

raw vegetable

6 1.0

A vegetable like a carrot or cucumber that is not cooked

raw recruit

1 4.0

A person who has just joined the army and has little training

raw umber

Specialized

1 7.7

A natural dark brown color from earth used in painting

raw wood

1 2.5

Wood that has not been smoothed or painted

raw throat

1 3.6

A sore feeling in the throat that makes swallowing hurt

raw wound

NSFW

1 6.6

An injury where the skin is broken and what is under the skin shows

raw wool

1 3.4

Hair from sheep that has not been cleaned or treated

raw beauty

1 4.1

Strong natural beauty that is not changed by people

raw sienna

Specialized

1 7.3

A yellow-brown paint color used in art

raw weather

1 5.7

Cold, wet weather that feels unpleasant outside

How Harsh

cruel

474 2.7

brutal

134 4.2

raw

24 6.3

harsh

104 2.9

tough

∞ 2.6

unpleasant

183 1.0

Surface Forms

raw positive

rawer comparative

rawest superlative

Etymology

Raw meaning harsh or brutal comes from the picture of raw, hurting skin, so a raw treatment is one that feels painfully unfair.