Raw

/ɹɔː/ · adjective

Meaning

(cooking) (of food) Not cooked..

Definitions by Sense

1. (cooking) (of food) Not cooked.
2. Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
3. Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
4. New or inexperienced.
5. Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
6. (statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis.
7. Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
8. Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)

Example Sentences

There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.

He ate raw beef for dinner.

raw cane sugar

raw sewage

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.

a raw wound

‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’

a raw beginner

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Word Forms

• rawer
• rawest
• raws
• rawing
• rawed

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