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raw
English
Etymology
From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hr?aw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hr?waz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh?- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin cr?dus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian ????? (krov?, “blood”). Related also to Old English hr?ow, hr?oh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: rô, IPA(key): /???/
- Rhymes: -??
- (US) enPR: rô, IPA(key): /??/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: r?, IPA(key): /??/
- (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger) enPR: rä, IPA(key): /??/
- Homophones: roar (in non-rhotic accents), rah (with cot-caught merger and father-bother merger)
Adjective
raw (comparative rawer, superlative rawest)
- (cooking) (of food) Not cooked. [from 9th c.]
- (of materials, products, etc.) Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. [from 10th c.]
- Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. [from 14th c.]
- New or inexperienced. [from 16th c.]
- Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated. [from 16th c.]
- (statistics) (of data) Uncorrected, without analysis. [from 20th c.]
- 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:
- What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
- 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:
- (of weather) Unpleasantly cold or damp.
- (of an emotion, personality, etc.) Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed
- Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
- (of language) Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters
- (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:raw
Derived terms
- rawly
- rawness
- raw sugar
Translations
Adverb
raw
- (slang) Without a condom.
Synonyms
- (without a condom): Thesaurus:condomless
Translations
Noun
raw (plural raws)
- (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
- 1800, Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, Volume 22, page 287,
- With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur.
- 1921, American Chemical Society, The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Volume 13, Part 1, page 149,
- Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.
- 1939, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Volume 148, Part 2, page 2924,
- The world sugar contract closed 1 to 3 points net higher, with sales of only 36 lots. London raws sold at 8s. 4½d., and futures there were unchanged to 3d. higher.
- 1800, Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, Volume 22, page 287,
- A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- (by extension, figuratively) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
- 1934, Harold Heslop, Goaf (page 29)
- In a moment Tom was angry. The women saw that Bill had touched him upon the raw, and they went out of the room to prepare a meal.
- 1934, Harold Heslop, Goaf (page 29)
- (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
- (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
Translations
Anagrams
- RWA, Rwa, WAR, WRA, War, War., war, war-
Anguthimri
Adjective
raw
- (Mpakwithi) black
References
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hr?aw.
Noun
raw
- Alternative form of rawe (“raw”)
Etymology 2
From Old English r?w, r?w.
Noun
raw
- Alternative form of rewe (“row”)
Welsh
Noun
raw
- Soft mutation of rhaw.
Mutation
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cruel
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: kro?o?l, IPA(key): /k?u?(?)l/
- Rhymes: -??l, -u?l
- Hyphenation: cru?el
Etymology 1
From Middle English cruel, borrowed from Old French cruel, from Latin cr?d?lis (“hard, severe, cruel”), akin to cr?dus (“raw, crude”); see crude.
Adjective
cruel (comparative crueler or crueller or more cruel, superlative cruelest or cruellest or most cruel)
- Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
- Synonym: sadistic
- Antonym: merciful
- Harsh; severe.
- 2013, Ranulph Fiennes, Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth
- He was physically the toughest of us and wore five layers of polar clothing, but the cold was cruel and wore us down hour after hour.
- 1951 C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
- You may be sure they watched the cliffs on their left eagerly for any sign of a break or any place where they could climb them; but those cliffs remained cruel.
- Synonym: brutal
- 2013, Ranulph Fiennes, Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth
- (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
Derived terms
- be cruel to be kind
- cruel-hearted
- cruelly
- cruelness
- cruelsome
- goodbye, cruel world
- overcruel
Related terms
- crude
- cruelty
Translations
Adverb
cruel (not comparable)
- (nonstandard) To a great degree; terribly.
Verb
cruel (third-person singular simple present cruels, present participle cruelling, simple past and past participle cruelled)
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
- 1937, Vance Palmer, Legend for Sanderson, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, p. 226, [2]
- What cruelled him was that Imperial Hotel contract.
- 2014, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 April, 2014, [3]
- He was on the fringes of Test selection last year before a shoulder injury cruelled his chances.
- 2015, The Age, 8 September, 2015, [4]
- A shortage of berth space for mega container ships will restrict capacity at Melbourne's port, cruelling Labor's attempts to get maximum value from its privatisation, a leading shipping expert has warned.
- 1937, Vance Palmer, Legend for Sanderson, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, p. 226, [2]
- (Australia, transitive, intransitive) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.
- 2007, Stewart Motha, "Reconciliation as Domination" in Scott Veitch (ed.), Law and the Politics of Reconciliation, Routledge, 2016, p. 83, [5]
- Violence is apparently introduced early by the practice of "cruelling": children even in their first months are physically punished and then encouraged to seek retribution by punishing the punisher.
- 2009, Mark Colvin, ABC, "Peter Sutton discusses the politics of suffering in Aboriginal communities," 2 July, 2009, [6]
- […] I was referring to the area where you were talking about this practice of cruelling; the pinching of babies, sometimes so hard that their skin breaks and may go septic.
- 2007, Stewart Motha, "Reconciliation as Domination" in Scott Veitch (ed.), Law and the Politics of Reconciliation, Routledge, 2016, p. 83, [5]
Etymology 2
Noun
cruel (countable and uncountable, plural cruels)
- Alternative form of crewel
Further reading
- cruel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- cruel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- lucre, ulcer
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin cr?d?lis.
Adjective
cruel (epicene, plural crueles)
- cruel
Related terms
- crueldá
- crudu
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin cr?d?lis.
Adjective
cruel (masculine and feminine plural cruels)
- cruel
Derived terms
- cruelment
Related terms
- crueltat
- cru
Further reading
- “cruel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From Old French cruel, from Latin cr?d?lis; either remade based on the Latin or evolved from the Old French form crual, possibly from a Vulgar Latin form *cr?d?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?y.?l/
- Homophones: cruels, cruelle, cruelles
Adjective
cruel (feminine singular cruelle, masculine plural cruels, feminine plural cruelles)
- cruel
- hard, painful
Synonyms
- féroce
- pénible
Derived terms
- cruellement
Related terms
- cruauté
- cru
Further reading
- “cruel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- culer
- recul
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese [Term?], from Latin cr?d?lis.
Adjective
cruel m or f (plural crueis)
- cruel
Derived terms
- cruelment
Related terms
- crueldade
- cru
Middle English
Alternative forms
- kruell, cruele, cruwel, crewel, cruell, cruwelle, crewelle, cruelle, crowell
Etymology
From Old French crual, from Latin cr?d?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kriu????l/, /?kriu??l/, /?kriu??l/, /?kru?l/
Adjective
cruel
- Merciless, cruel; revelling in another's pain.
- Deleterious, injurious; conducive to suffering.
- Unbearable, saddening, terrifying.
- Strict, unforgiving, mean; not nice.
- Savage, vicious, dangerous; displaying ferocity.
- Bold, valiant, heroic (in war)
- (rare) Sharp, acrid, bitter-tasting.
Derived terms
- cruelheed
- cruelly
- cruelnesse
- cruelte
Descendants
- English: cruel
- Scots: cruel
References
- “cr???l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese cruel, from Latin cr?d?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /k?u.???/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /k?u.??w/
- Rhymes: -?w
Adjective
cruel (plural cruéis, comparable)
- (of a person or creature) cruel (that intentionally causes or revels in pain and suffering)
- Synonym: bárbaro
- (of a situation or occurrence) cruel; harsh; severe
- Synonyms: severo, terrível, pesado
- (of a doubt or question) distressful
- Synonym: terrível
- (of an occurrence) bloody; violent
- Synonyms: sangrento, cruento, sanguinolento
Derived terms
- cruelmente
Related terms
- crueldade
- cru
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish, from Latin cr?d?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?wel/, [?k?wel]
Adjective
cruel (plural crueles)
- cruel, mean
Derived terms
- cruelmente
Related terms
- crueldad
- crudo
Further reading
- “cruel” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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