new (adj.)

  1. not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; a new law; new cars; a new comet; a new friend; a new year; the New World'

  2. unaffected by use or exposure; it looks like new'

    new (adv.)

  1. very recently; they are newly married; newly raised objections; a newly arranged hairdo; grass new washed by the rain; a freshly cleaned floor; we are fresh out of tomatoes

    [ Syn: newly , newly , freshly , freshly , fresh , fresh , newly , newly , freshly , freshly , fresh , fresh , newly , newly , freshly , freshly , fresh , fresh , newly , newly , freshly , freshly , fresh , fresh ]

    new (adj.)

  1. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; new potatoes; young corn

    [ Syn: young ]

  2. unfamiliar; new experiences; experiences new to him; errors of someone new to the job'

  3. original and of a kind not seen before; the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem

    [ Syn: fresh , novel ]

  4. lacking training or experience; the new men were eager to fight; raw recruits

    [ Syn: raw ]

  5. having no previous example or precedent or parallel; a time of unexampled prosperity

    [ Syn: unexampled ]

  6. other than the former one(s); different; they now have a new leaders; my new car is four years old but has only 15, 000 miles on it; ready to take a new direction'

  7. (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; newfangled ideas; she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them

    [ Syn: newfangled ]

  8. in use after medieval times; New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties

    [ Syn: new ]

  9. used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; Modern English; New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew

    [ Syn: modern , new ]

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