Synonyms for raw
- adjective
Most common
untreated pristine unprocessed unrefined sensitive bare-assed uncooked unripe
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Unprocessed — unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
unprocessed, unrefined, natural, rude, untreated, pristine, untouched, green dated, coarse dated
3. Naked
naked, bare-assed, peeled, stark naked slang dated
Other
uncooked, fresh, inexperienced, cold, piercing, unripe, exposed, unseasoned, bare, rare, new, unfinished
Definitions
- adj. 1
Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
- adj. 2
(of food) Not cooked.
He ate raw beef for dinner.
- adj. 3
(of food) Not cooked. Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.
- adj. 4
Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
Related words
- Word family
- rawboned raw-boned rawism rawist rawness
- Phrases
- in the raw raw material raw sienna raw deal raw dog raw food raw foodism raw foodist
Example sentences
- untreated We've left the wood untreated as you requested.
- pristine Yanni's once pristine residence has become unrecognizable.
- unrefined I prefer unrefined sugar rather than consuming sweeteners.
- sensitive Slavery is still a sensitive subject around here.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| raw | falling | |
| untreated | falling | |
| pristine | rising | |
| unprocessed | steady | |
| unrefined | steady | |
| sensitive | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- new1
- 4 letters
- cold1, rare1, rude1, bare1, sore1
- 5 letters
- green1, fresh1, naked2, bleak1
- 6 letters
- tender2, coarse1, peeled1, unripe
- 7 letters
- natural3, cutting2, exposed2, painful2
- 8 letters
- immature3, piercing2, pristine2, uncooked, smarting2
- 9 letters
- sensitive3, untouched2, untreated3, unrefined3
- 10 letters
- unfinished3, unseasoned
- 11 letters
- unprocessed3
- 13 letters
- inexperienced5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (naked2 = 2 syllables).