Adjective

(-)

Not having been initiated.

Of a person, not having the special knowledge of a particular group.

His jargon-filled talk was gibberish to the uninitiated but clear and concise to practitioners.

* {{quote-book

, year=1863 , year_published= , publisher=Little, Brown, and Co , editor=Sir William Smith , author= , title=A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising its Antiquities, Biography, Geography and Natural History , volume_plain=Volume III. Red Sea-Zuzims , section=Versions, Ancient (Targum) citation , pages=1653-1654 , passage=Even in the midst of the full swing of fancy, swayed to and fro by the many currants of thought that arise out of a single word, snatches of the verse from which the flight was taken will suddenly appear on the surface like a refrain or a keynote, showing that in reality there is a connexion, though hidden to the uninitiated .}}

* {{quote-book

, year=1914 , year_published=2001 , publisher=Adegi Graphics , author=William Halse Rivers Rivers , title=The History of Melanesian Society , volume=2, Part 1 , section=Chapter XXXIII. Religion and Magic citation , isbn=9781402197727 , page=411 , passage=To the uninitiated', the belief not merely in the influence of the dead, but in their actual presence during secret rites is, or has until lately been, very real, and in so far as the ' uninitiated are brought into relation with the societies will possess a religious character.}}

* {{quote-magazine

, year=1961 , title=Tape recorders: A quick guide for the uninitiated , date=January 1962 , volume=16 , issue=1 , page=13 , magazine=Changing Times: The Kiplinger Magazine , editor=Herbet L. Brown Jr , publisher=Kiplinger Washington Editors , issn=1528-9729 citation , passage=A quick guide for the uninitiated }}

* {{quote-book

, year=2008 , publisher=Fordham University Press , author=David E. Johnson , title=Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture , section=Ex-Cited Dialogue citation , isbn= 9780823228782 , page=107 , passage=Although the priests are the initiated, they remain ignorant and incapable of instructing the uninitiated in the proper method of painting the temples.}}

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