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

raw

20 8.5

Completely without clothes

adjective
/rɔ/

NSFW

: desnudo

At the locker room, everyone walked around raw after the game, not caring at all.
naked and raw

Examples

"My legs look like a raw turkey," I added.

Fiction book (1993)
You're going to see a lot of me in my just raw, natural, tired, unglamorous state.
But it's more than just the sheer power of his raw sexuality.

Fool's Gold (2008)
Too bad I'm so messed up, because I got so much raw talent.

Fiction book (1995)
I'm a troubling mix of a father figure and raw, masculine power.

Slumberland (2022)
I like the times when Tyler is stripped down and raw—sort of a female William Kennedy.

Blog text (22)
We decided to go to the beach and play volleyball raw under the sun.
In the summer heat, they loved to sunbathe raw by the pool.

Synonyms

nude

vsraw

NSFW

89 3.7

Not wearing any clothes

is informal everyday speech rather than neutral register

naked

vsraw

NSFW

38 1.0

Not covered and showing the surface underneath

is informal human-focused speech rather than general exposure talk

stark naked

vsraw

NSFW

7 4.6

Completely without any clothes

is informal but usually less forceful in everyday use

in the buff

vsraw

NSFW

6 9.3

Not wearing any clothes

is blunter and less playful than that idiomatic phrase

unclothed

vsraw

NSFW

4 3.7

Not wearing any clothes

is more casual and colloquial in everyday talk

au naturel

vsraw

NSFW

4 9.6

Not wearing clothes or makeup

is plain informal speech rather than a stylized foreign expression

bare-assed

vsraw

Offensive

2 9.6

Completely without clothes with the bottom showing

is informal but less crude and less body-part focused

bare-ass

vsraw

Offensive

2 9.9

Completely without clothes

is informal yet generally less crude in everyday use

naked as a jaybird

vsraw

NSFW

2 9.5

Having no clothes on

is a straightforward informal label rather than a playful idiom

unclad

vsraw

NSFW

1 7.5

Not wearing any clothes

is more slangy and informal in casual conversation

clothesless

vsraw

NSFW

8.4

Not wearing any clothes

is a looser, more conversational way to say the same idea

peeled

vsraw

NSFW

9.9

Completely without clothes on

is everyday informal speech but less slangy or playful

stripped

vsraw

NSFW

3.5

Wearing little or no clothing

focuses on being fully without clothes in casual talk

uncovered

vsraw

NSFW

1.9

Not wearing clothes on a part of the body

is more colloquial and blunt rather than neutral exposure

exposed

vsraw

1.8

Not covered by clothes and showing skin

is more casual and coarse in everyday speech

in the raw

vsraw

NSFW

8.8

A person who has no clothes on

is the plain informal expression rather than a fixed idiom

starkers

vsraw

NSFW

9.9

A person who has no clothes on

is general informal speech rather than regionally marked usage

naked as the day you were born

vsraw

NSFW

7.4

Completely without clothes like at birth

is the plain informal description rather than a simile

naked as the day one was born

vsraw

NSFW

7.6

Completely without clothes, as when someone is born

is the straightforward informal term rather than figurative speech

mother-naked

vsraw

NSFW

9.9

Completely without clothes like a new baby

is the shorter informal term rather than an emphatic phrase

unattired

vsraw

NSFW

9.1

Not wearing any clothes

is modern informal usage rather than formal or archaic wording

undressed

vsraw

NSFW

1.9

A person who is not wearing any clothes

focuses on the state of being without clothes rather than removal act

Antonyms

clothed

1.2

Covered by a layer like snow or leaves

Idioms

in the raw

1 5.4

In a natural state without being changed

in the raw

NSFW

8.8

A person who has no clothes on

Compounds

raw material

Specialized

48 2.8

A natural thing used to make goods or energy

raw data

Specialized

21 3.5

Information collected before people process or check it

raw meat

14 1.0

Uncooked meat that people eat

raw deal

Informal

13 4.4

Unfair treatment that hurts someone and is not deserved

raw milk

11 3.4

Milk that is not heated to kill germs

raw talent

9 3.4

A natural ability that is strong but not yet trained

raw vegetable

5 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 sienna

Specialized

1 7.3

A yellow-brown paint color used in art

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 wound

NSFW

1 6.6

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

raw throat

3.6

A sore feeling in the throat that makes swallowing hurt

raw beauty

4.1

Strong natural beauty that is not changed by people

raw weather

5.7

Cold, wet weather that feels unpleasant outside

raw wool

3.4

Hair from sheep that has not been cleaned or treated

How Clothed

clothed

1.2

undressed

NSFW

1.9

raw

NSFW

20 8.5

Surface Forms

raw positive

Etymology

Raw for 'naked' comes from the idea of 'bare' or 'uncovered' tied to the old meaning 'uncooked', so being raw is like being openly uncovered.