raw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rô
ipa: /ɹɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
enpr: rô
ipa: /ɹɔ/
enpr: rä
ipa: /ɹɑ/
homophone: roar (non-rhotic)
homophone: rah (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: rawer
form: rawest
Etymology: From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).
Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.
Senses: examples: text: There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.
text: He ate raw beef for dinner.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: (of food) Not cooked.
examples: text: I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: (of food) Not cooked.
Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
examples: text: Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.
ref: 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:
text: raw cane sugar
text: raw sewage
glosses: Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
examples: text: ‘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.[…]’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: a raw wound
glosses: Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
examples: text: a raw beginner
glosses: New or inexperienced.
examples: text: a raw voice
glosses: Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
examples: text: What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
ref: 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Uncorrected, without analysis.
raw_tags: of data
examples: text: a raw wind
text: a raw and gusty day
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: […] I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, […]
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter I, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: He made Yossarian think of cripples and of cold and hungry men and women, and of all the dumb, passive, devout mothers with catatonic eyes nursing infants outdoors that same night with chilled animal udders bared insensibly to that same raw rain.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 428:
glosses: Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
examples: text: raw emotion
glosses: Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
examples: text: a raw description of the American political arena
glosses: Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
glosses: Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: Without a condom.
examples: text: with scull all raw
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11:
glosses: Not covered; bare; bald.
Synonyms: word: raw
word: crude
word: natural
word: pure
word: pristine
word: unprocessed
word: unrefined
word: untouched
word: untreated
Hyponyms: word: green
word: in the rough
word: rough cast
word: rough hewn
word: unblown
word: unboiled
word: uncooked
word: unconcocted
word: unfashioned
word: unformed
word: unhewn
word: unlabored
word: unpolished
word: unsmelted
word: unwrought
Derived terms: come the raw prawn
hit a raw nerve
in the raw
Johnny Raw
on the raw
raw bar
raw-boned
raw data
raw deal
raw dog
raw foodism
raw foodist
raw-head and bloody-bones
raw lobster
rawly
raw material
raw milk
raw mill
raw nerve
rawness
raw papaya
raw sewage
raw sienna
raw silk
raw sugar
raw water
red raw
ree-raw
touch a raw nerve