Adjective

(en adjective)

Necessary, essential for life or some process.

Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.

Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.

The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is purely basic .

(chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.

(slang) Vapid, boring, or uncool.

* 2011 , (Kreayshawn), "(Gucci Gucci)", (w, Somethin' 'Bout Kreay) :

Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada / Them basic bitches wear that shit, so I don't even bother

* 2013 , Sam Stryker, " Why Does Everyone Hate Anne Hathaway?", The Observer (University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College), Volume 46, Issue 101, 1 March 2013, page 11:

I'm not saying people are jealous of Hathaway because she is so perfect. Yes, she does have it all — husband, healthy career, good looks. But she doesn't do anything in an "awesome" way. She's basic .

* 2014 , Trevor Thrall, " Firing Line: Rowling says ‘JK,’ Ron and Hermione not meant to be", The Daily Campus (Southern Methodist University), Volume 99, Issue 54, 3 February 2014, page 4:

And what can be said about Ginny? She’s basic . My guess is that she spends her time drinking pumpkin spice lattes and watching “Pretty Little Liars.” The Chosen One is way out of her quidditch league.

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Adjective

(er)

Of food: not cooked.

Not treated or processed (of materials, products etc.); in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.

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

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw . Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}

New or inexperienced.

Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.

Of data, statistics etc: uncorrected, without analysis.

* 2010 , "Under the volcano", (The Economist), 16 Oct 2010:

What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.

Of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold.

a raw wind

* Shakespeare

a raw and gusty day

(obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.

* Spenser

with scull all raw