raw

CEFRA2

/rˈɑ/

adjective

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  1. 01

    adjective

    Not cooked, processed, or changed from its natural state.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Not processed, treated, or prepared.

Examples

  • The country has to import most of its raw materials.

  • You shouldn't have eaten the fish raw.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

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adjective

Extra meanings

  1. (of food) Not cooked., 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.)

  3. (of food) Not cooked.

More examples

In context

  • Can you eat raw oysters?

  • I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.

  • There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.

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Origin

adjective

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.