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raw

  • adjective
  • rô

of food Not cooked.

Other meanings

  1. Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.

  2. Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. of materials, products, etc.

Synonyms

  • natural

Related words

  • nonraw
  • rawboned
  • rawbones
  • rawhide
  • rawish
  • rawism
  • rawist
  • rawstock
  • rawstyle
  • semiraw
  • Johnny Raw
  • raw lobster

Example sentences

  • “I eat raw kimchi whenever I'm taking antibiotics.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Old English "hrēaw" (raw, uncooked).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “raw” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.