raw
UK /ɹɔː/ · US /ɹɔ/ adjective, adverb, noun, verb, proper noun
Forms rawer rawest raws rawing rawed R.A.W. R. A. W.
- adjective (cooking) (of food) Not cooked. “There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.”
- adjective Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food. “I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.”
- adjective Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.) “raw cane sugar”
- adjective Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. “a raw wound”
- adjective New or inexperienced. “a raw beginner”
- adjective Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated. “a raw voice”
- adjective (statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis.
- adjective Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather) “a raw wind”
- adverb (slang, sex) Without a condom. “We did it raw.”
- noun (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
- noun A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- noun (by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
- noun (slang, uncountable) Unadulterated narcotics, especially crack cocaine
- noun (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
- noun (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
- verb (slang, transitive) To sexually penetrate without a condom.
- proper noun A surname from Old English.
Synonyms
coarse crude natural pure pristine unalloyed unmixed unprocessed unrefined untouched untreated utter condomless R&AW altogether birthday suit rude naked sensitive sore tender bleak cutting unsanded new bare-assed bare-ass in the altogether in the buff in the raw
Antonyms
contaminated impure manufactured modified processed refined cooked
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”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rå (“raw”), Faroese ráur (“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. Doublet of crude.
Topographic surname for someone who lived at a hedgerow or at a row of houses, from Old English rāw (“row”).
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.
- adjective Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit.
- noun A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw. Like savage hackney coachmen, they know where there is a raw. De Quincey.
Etymology [AS. hreáw; akin to D. raauw, LG. rau, G. roh, OHG. ro, Icel. hrar, Dan. raa, Sw. rå, L. crudus, Gr. kre`as flesh, Skr. kravis raw flesh. sq. root18. Cf. Crude, Cruel.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “raw”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details