new
Adjective
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Not of long duration;
Having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered (synset 301645077)"a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"also:tells us about: age - how long something has existedsimilar to:- bran-new, brand-new, spic-and-span, spick-and-span - conspicuously new
- fresh - (of a cycle) beginning or occurring again
- hot, red-hot - newest or most recent
- new-sprung, newborn - having just or recently arisen or come into existence
- new-fangled, newfangled - (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new
- newfound - newly discovered
- novel, refreshing - pleasantly new or different
- parvenu, parvenue - of or characteristic of a parvenu
- recent - new
- radical, revolutionary - markedly new or introducing radical change
- rising - newly come into prominence
- sunrise - of an industry or technology; new and developing
- untested, untried - not yet proved or subjected to testing
- unused - not yet put into use
- virgin - being used or worked for the first time
- young - being in its early stage
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Original and of a kind not seen before (synset 301691809)
"the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"similar to: original - being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of
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Lacking training or experience (synset 300940455)
"the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"similar to: inexperienced, inexperient - lacking practical experience or trainingsame as: raw
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Having no previous example or precedent or parallel (synset 300129805)
"a time of unexampled prosperity"similar to: unprecedented - having no precedent; novelsame as: unexampled
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Other than the former one(s);
Different (synset 302077895)"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"similar to: other - not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied -
Unaffected by use or exposure (synset 302595137)
"it looks like new"similar to: unweathered - not worn by exposure to the weather
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In use after medieval times (synset 300824777)
"New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"referred to in: linguistics - the scientific study of languagesimilar to: late - of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages
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Used of a living language;
Being the current stage in its development (synset 300824544)"Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"referred to in: linguistics - the scientific study of languagesimilar to: late - of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languagessame as: modern -
(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development;
Before complete maturity (synset 300821577)"new potatoes"; "young corn"similar to: early - being or occurring at an early stage of developmentsame as: young -
(often followed by `to') unfamiliar (synset 300025079)
"new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job"similar to: unaccustomed to - not habituated to; unfamiliar with
Adverb
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Very recently (synset 400113522)
"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"
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