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freshly

freshly

111 1.0
Very recently made or done
  • adverb
  • /ˈfrɛʃli/
translation icon : recién
  • I think I have some freshly baked cookies, too.
  • freshly baked
  • freshly ground
  • freshly cut

Outside the sergeant's mess, there is a freshly painted circle.

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Examples

  • Outside the sergeant's mess, there is a freshly painted circle.

  • Does it taste like freshly squeezed apple juice?

  • I used to, back when I was, you know, freshly out of college, super broke.

  • Well, you know, a freshly baked roll.

  • These are dahlias freshly cut from my garden.

  • The double bed was rolled out and made up with clean, freshly-ironed linen sheets.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Jefe, here's some produce, freshly picked right outta the fields.

  • The gym has a honeyed look from the late afternoon light on the freshly refinished floors.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • The fresh scent of the air was a reminder of how things felt freshly renewed after the storm.

  • She felt freshly inspired after attending the motivational seminar yesterday.

Synonyms

just
vsfreshly
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A short time before now

refers to things very recently done or experienced rather than only marking time
newly
vsfreshly
361 1.0

Very recently, only a short time ago

focuses on being recently done, made, or experienced rather than only timing

Compounds

Just made in an oven and still warm, like bread or cookies

How Recent

just
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freshly
111 1.0
recently
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formerly
161 1.9

Surface Forms

freshly positive

Morphology

freshly = fresh (transparent) = fresh + ly

Standard adverbial formation by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'fresh', yielding the meaning 'in a recent or fresh manner'.

Etymology

Freshly comes from the word fresh and the ending -ly, and fresh means 'new' or 'not old', like bread taken straight from the oven or a garden after rain. So, to say something is freshly done is to say it was 'just made' or happened very recently.