raw

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (of food) Not cooked.

   There's nothing but raw fish in the fridge.

2. 2
   adj

   Not yet processed, refined, or analysed.

   The scientists are still studying the raw data.

3. 3
   adj

   (of natural ability) Strong but not yet trained or developed.

   The young player has raw talent that needs coaching.

4. 4
   adj

   (of skin) Sore and painful, with the surface rubbed away.

   Her hands were red and raw from the cold.

Common collocations

• raw fish Adjective + noun
• raw recruit Adjective + noun
• raw talent Adjective + noun

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.

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