raw
(of food) Not cooked.
Adjective 4 meanings
(of food) Not cooked.
“There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.”
Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
“raw cane sugar”
Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
New or inexperienced.
“a raw beginner”
Noun 3 meanings
An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
A galled place; an inveterate sore.
A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
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”).
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RAW at a glance
RAW has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (R 1 + A 1 + W 4) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,792 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with raw
All rhymes- DRAW8
- WITHDRAW18
- STRAW8
- REDRAW10
- CRAW9
- BRAW9
- OVERDRAW15
- BEDSTRAW14
- OUTDRAW11
- FOOFARAW17
- SCRAW10
- THRAW11
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