Raw vs. Bare — What's the Difference?

Uncooked

(of a person or part of the body) not clothed or covered

Being in a natural condition; not processed or refined

Without addition; basic and simple

Not finished, covered, or coated

Uncover (a part of the body or other thing) and expose it to view

Not having been subjected to adjustment, treatment, or analysis

A large amount or number of

Undeveloped or unused

Very; really (used as an intensifier)

Recently finished; fresh

Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked

Inexperienced or untrained

Exposed to view; undisguised

Having subcutaneous tissue exposed

Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration

Inflamed; sore

Having no addition, adornment, or qualification

Unpleasantly damp and chilly

Just sufficient; mere

Powerfully impressive; stark

(Obsolete) Bareheaded.

Direct in description and explicit in realistic detail

To make bare; uncover or reveal

Crude, vulgar, or coarse

To expose

Nude; naked

A past tense of bear1.

Engaged in without the protection of a condom.

Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.

Done in a rough or unrestrained manner. Used of sex.

Naked, uncovered.

(Slang) Without a condom; unprotected.

Having no supplies.

(cooking) of food Not cooked.

Having no decoration.

Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.

Having had what usually covers (something) removed.

Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.

A lot or lots of.

New or inexperienced.

With head uncovered; bareheaded.

Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.

Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.

Uncorrected, without analysis.

(figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.

Unpleasantly cold or damp.

Threadbare, very worn.

Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed.

Not insured.

Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.

(dialect) Barely.

Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters.

Very; significantly.

(obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.

(slang) Without a condom.

(slang) Without a condom.

(‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin.

An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.

Surface; body; substance.

A galled place; an inveterate sore.

(architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.

To uncover; to reveal.

A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.

(obsolete) bear

A scan that has not been cleaned purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process and has not been scanlated.

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

(slang) To anally or vaginally penetrate without a condom.

With head uncovered; bareheaded.

Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna;

Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.

Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit.

Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.

Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.

Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; - used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.

Not covered; bare.

Threadbare; much worn.

Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.

Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.

A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.

Surface; body; substance.

Informal terms for nakedness;

That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

(used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed condition;

To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

Having the surface exposed and painful;

Lay bare;

Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating

Make public;

Not processed or refined;

Lay bare;

Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure;

Denuded of leaves;

Brutally unfair or harsh;

Completely unclothed;

Not processed or subjected to analysis;

Lacking in amplitude or quantity;

Untempered and unrefined;

Without the natural or usual covering;

Unpleasantly cold and damp;

Not having a protective covering;

Inflamed and painful;

Just barely adequate or within a lower limit;

Used of wood and furniture;

Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications;

Lacking training or experience;

Lacking a surface finish such as paint;

(used informally) completely unclothed

Providing no shelter or sustenance;

Having extraneous everything removed including contents;

Showing ground without the usual covering of grass;