raw

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. crude; unprepared, uncooked; undisciplined, unexperienced; skinned, scraped, abraded; bleak, piercing; harsh; naked; untrained; unpolished, boorish. See cold, unskillfulness, newness, unpreparedness. Ant., refined; cooked.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Not cooked]

Syn. uncooked, fresh, rare, hard, unprepared, undercooked, underdone, fibrous, coarse-grained, unpasteurized, unbaked, unfried; see also rare 5 .

Ant. cooked, baked*, fried.

2. [Unfinished]

Syn. natural, untreated, rough, newly cut, unprocessed, crude, unrefined, unstained, untanned, coarse, newly mined, uncut, virgin, unedited, unevaluated; see also unfinished 2 .

Ant. manufactured, refined*, processed.

3. [Untrained]

Syn. inexperienced, immature, new, fresh; see inexperienced .

4. [Cold]

Syn. biting, windy, bleak; see cold 1 .

5. [Without skin]

Syn. peeled, skinned, dressed, galled, scraped, blistered, cut, wounded, pared, uncovered, chafed, bruised, sore, irritated, inflamed.

Ant. coated, covered*, healed.

6. [*Nasty]

Syn. coarse, crude, brutally frank; see coarse 2 , rude 2 , vulgar 1 .

• in the raw*,

Syn. nude, bare, unclothed; see naked 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

1. uncooked rare, bloody, underdone.

2. natural unrefined, unprocessed, virgin, crude, rough, undressed, unfinished.

3. inexperienced untrained, green, unseasoned, immature, callow, unfledged, new, ignorant, unschooled.

4. sore inflamed, tender, sensitive, abraded, exposed, open, bare, chafed.

5. cold chilly, bitter, damp, bleak, freezing, nippy, biting.

ANT.: 1. cooked, well-done. 2. refined, processed, milled. 3. experienced, trained, seasoned. 4. healthy, calloused, numb. 5. warm, pleasant, balmy

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Not cooked: uncooked. See INGESTION. 2. In a natural state and still not prepared for use: crude, native, unprocessed, unrefined. See CLEAN. 3. Lacking expert, careful craftsmanship: crude, primitive, rough, rude, unpolished. See GOOD. 4. Lacking experience and the knowledge gained from it: green, inexperienced, inexpert, uninitiate, uninitiated, unprac-ticed, unseasoned, untried, unversed. See ABILITY.