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say it: rah
raw is an adjective and noun meaning "(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes". It is pronounced /ˈɹɑ/ — rah. It carries 14 recorded senses.
(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
“natural yogurt”
“natural produce”
“raw wool”
“raw sugar”
“bales of rude cotton”
not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
not processed or subjected to analysis
“raw data”
“the raw cost of production”
“only the crude vital statistics”
lacking training or experience
“the new men were eager to fight”
“raw recruits”
informal terms for nakedness
“in the raw”
“in the altogether”
“in his birthday suit”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for raw come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.