raw

Meaning

1. (of food) Not cooked.
2. (of food) Not cooked.
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. (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.

uncooked

not cooked

half-cooked

bare-ass

bowelless

eat raw

inexperient

mother-naked

not ripe

in an uncooked manner

unsupportive

insufficiently cooked

uripe undone

non-permanent

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɔː/

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.