raw

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not processed or subjected to analysis

   raw data

2. 2
   adj

   completely unclothed

   The artist sketched the model's raw form.

3. 3
   adj

   brutally unfair or harsh

   They received raw treatment from their friends.

4. 4
   adj

   having the surface exposed and painful

   a raw wound

5. 5
   adj

   untempered and unrefined

   raw talent

6. 6
   adj

   not processed or refined

   raw sewage

7. 7
   noun

   informal terms for nakedness

   in the raw

8. 8
   adj

   (of food) Not cooked.

   There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.

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”), 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.