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afresh

afresh

8 4.7
To start again in a new way
  • adverb
  • /əˈfrɛʃ/
translation icon : de nuevo
  • I appreciate you afresh and love you more.
  • start afresh
  • think afresh

So it's going to be very hard for life to evolve afresh on planets orbiting red dwarf stars.

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Examples

  • Now she hoped they could start afresh on a calmer note.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • The third quality of spiritual maturity is our ability to let go and start afresh.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Is there a chance we can start afresh?

  • Let's start afresh, shall we?

  • You get some other girl and you start afresh.

  • Regardless of what occurred in class, we were able to start afresh at each practice.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The Pegasus' sacrifice meant that humanity could start afresh and build a future.

  • Let's begin afresh with zeal, with enthusiasm, with tremendous hope and faith and confidence that I can do it.

  • Thought I'd start afresh.

  • After the argument, they decided to move on and start afresh in their relationship.

Synonyms

over again
vsafresh
123 1.0

Again from the beginning

stresses a fresh new beginning rather than mere repetition
anew
vsafresh
  • Formal
58 4.6

Again in a new way

is the same but stresses a fresh new beginning

Antonyms

58 3.5

Doing the same thing again and again

32 3.1

Not new or interesting because of repetition

Surface Forms

afresh positive

Morphology

afresh = fresh (semi-transparent) = a + fresh

The connection to 'fresh' is recognizable, but the adverbial prefix 'a-' is not productive for most learners and the sense 'again, from a new beginning' is not fully predictable.

Etymology

Afresh comes from the prefix a- meaning 'in' and the word fresh meaning 'new' or 'clean', so it literally means 'in a new way'. That's why when you do something afresh you begin again from a new start.