raw
/ɹɔ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
adj
New or inexperienced.
adj
Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
adj
Uncorrected, without analysis.
adj
Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
Example Sentences
- "There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer."
- "He ate raw beef for dinner."
- "A flying fish is excellent to eat raw and I would not have to cut him up."
- "I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018."
- "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."
- "raw cane sugar"
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɔ/
- British English: /ɹɔː/
Usage
Inflected Forms
rawer (comparative)
rawest (superlative)
raws (plural)
raws (present, singular)
rawing (participle, present)
rawed (participle, past)
rawed (past)
R.A.W. (alternative)
R. A. W. (alternative)