new

• (a) 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
• (r) 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
  fresh, freshly, newly,
• (s) original and of a kind not seen before
  • the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem
  novel, fresh,
• (s) lacking training or experience
  • the new men were eager to fight
  • raw recruits
  raw,
• (s) having no previous example or precedent or parallel
  • a time of unexampled prosperity
  unexampled,
• (s) 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
• (a) unaffected by use or exposure
  • it looks like new
• (s) (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new
  • newfangled ideas
  • she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them
  newfangled,
• (s) in use after medieval times
  • New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties
• (s) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
  • Modern English
  • New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew
  Modern,
• (s) (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
  • new potatoes
  • young corn
  young,
• (s) unfamiliar
  • new experiences
  • experiences new to him
  • errors of someone new to the job

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Words of close approximity