English Explanatory Dictionary

raw

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. (of food) Not cooked.
  2. Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
  3. Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
  4. Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
  5. New or inexperienced.
  6. Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
  7. Uncorrected, without analysis.
  8. Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
  9. Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
  10. Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
  11. Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
  12. Without a condom.
adv
  1. Without a condom.
noun
  1. An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
  2. A galled place; an inveterate sore.
  3. A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
  4. A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
  5. A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
verb
  1. To sexually penetrate without a condom.
name
  1. Initialism of Research and Analysis Wing.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of rules as written: the actual rules appearing in the rulebook, as opposed to house rules, or to rules that might have been intended (in the event of a mistake in the rulebook).
  2. Initialism of read after write, a kind of data hazard.
name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Pronunciation

rô /ɹɔː/ /ɹɔ/ rä /ɹɑ/ en-us-raw.ogg

Word forms

raw rawer rawest raws rawing rawed R.A.W. R. A. W.

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.

Synonyms

raw coarse crude natural pure pristine unalloyed unmixed unprocessed unrefined untouched untreated utter condomless R&AW

Antonyms

contaminated impure manufactured modified processed refined

Derived words

come the raw prawn hit a raw nerve in the raw Johnny Raw nonraw on the raw raw bar rawboned raw-boned rawbones raw data raw deal raw dog raw foodism raw foodist raw-head and bloody-bones rawhide rawish rawism rawist raw lobster rawly raw material raw milk raw mill raw nerve rawness raw papaya raw sewage raw sienna raw silk rawstock rawstyle raw sugar raw water red raw ree-raw semiraw touch a raw nerve

Translations

Abkhaz: аӡа Ainu: フ Albanian: gjallë Arabic: نَيْء Arabic: ني Armenian: հում Aromanian: crud Assamese: কেঁচা Asturian: crudu Azerbaijani: xam Azerbaijani: çiy Baluchi: هامگ Bangi: -besu Basque: gordin Belarusian: сыры́ Bengali: কাঁচা Bulgarian: суро́в Burmese: စိမ်း Catalan: cru Cebuano: hilaw Chamicuro: s̈hoyi Chinese Mandarin: 生的 Czech: syrový Dalmatian: croit Danish: rå Dutch: rauw Dutch: rauwe Estonian: toores Faroese: ráur Finnish: raaka French: cru Friulian: crût Friulian: crûd Galician: cru Georgian: ნედლი German: roh Greek: ωμός Greek: άψητος Greek: αμαγείρευτος Ancient Greek: ὠμός Hawaiian: maka Hebrew: נָא Hebrew: חַי Higaonon: hilaw Higaonon: manilaw Hindi: कच्चा Hungarian: nyers Icelandic: hrár Icelandic: óunninn
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