in the raw

Questions about in the raw

What does in the raw mean?

in the raw means "(used informally) completely unclothed".

What is another word for in the raw?

Close synonyms include bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, raw. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in the raw a common word?

in the raw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.