raw
Pronunciation: /ɹɔː/
The English word “raw” has 20 meanings listed here.
adjective
- (of food) Not cooked.
- Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
- Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
- Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
- New or inexperienced.
- Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
- Uncorrected, without analysis.
- Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
- Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
- Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
- Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
- Without a condom.
- Not covered; bare; bald.
noun
- An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
- A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
- Unadulterated narcotics, especially crack cocaine
- A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
- A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
verb
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…
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