new
Meaning
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" [ant: old]
2: 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" [syn:
new(a)]
3: having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time
of unexampled prosperity" [syn: unexampled]
4: of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a
completely novel proof of a well-known theorem" [syn: fresh,
novel]
5: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to
fight"; "raw recruits"; "he was still wet behind the ears
when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel" [syn: raw,
wet behind the ears(p)]
6: of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion [syn: newfangled]
7: (often followed by `to') unfamiliar; "new experiences";
"experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the
job" [syn: new to(p)]
8: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development;
before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn"
[syn: young]
9: unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new"
10: in use after Medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language
of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
11: used of a living language; being the current stage in its
development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli
Hebrew" [syn: Modern]
adv : 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: recently, newly, freshly,
fresh]