new
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9.9
- adverb
- /nuː/
- Archaic
- She shared a new recipe she had discovered just yesterday.
Examples
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So this one was posted about three hours ago, so very new, very new.
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You hear it new old fashioned way.
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Structures that are newer fashioned out of metal really would take advantage of any characteristics of the metals.
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When moist with a few of my favorites like Hand Job, Go Kart Racing, I Don't Know Who You Are, and the newest most horrible song ever in the history of mankind.
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In the townhouse (typical suburban, newer built with an insane amount of storage closets), if you have everything you need and nothing more, there's really not a need for storage solutions.
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The letter arrived new, as if it had just been printed this morning.
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These shoes are new and still have the tags attached.
Synonyms
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1.0
Very recently, only a short time ago
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
1
8.6
New ideas put into an old way that do not bring real change
Compounds
847
1.0
A northeastern US state with Albany as capital and New York City as its largest city
58
4.2
The continents of North and South America that Europeans settled from the late 1400s
41
4.1
A series of government reforms and programs in the United States from 1933 to 1940 under President Roosevelt
38
2.6
A large place in New York where people buy and sell shares of companies
8
4.1
A tender cut of beef from the upper part of the cow's back often cooked as a steak
5
4.6
A large government program of reforms and public spending based on 1930s United States policies
- Jargon
2
8.4
An effort by the Catholic Church to bring people back to faith where it is declining
2
7.5
A movement in 1950s and 1960s French films that used new ways of telling stories and showing images
2
5.3
A solemn Jewish festival that marks the start of the year with prayers and the blowing of a horn
1
5.9
A monkey from Central and South America with a flat nose and often a tail that can hold things
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2.3
A group of islands that includes New Zealand's North and South Islands and nearby smaller islands
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3.3
A thick creamy soup from New England made with clams, potatoes, onions, and milk
1
4.4
A set of government programs in the 1930s in the United States to fight the Great Depression
- Literature
1
8.5
A former name for the island group now called Vanuatu in the southwest Pacific
- Archaic
1
9.5
A way of studying literature that focuses on a text's language and form, not the author's life or history
- Formal
1
8.5
A form of Latin used since the Renaissance for science, study, and naming plants and animals
1
6.4
A very high steel arch bridge that crosses the New River at Fayetteville, West Virginia
- NSFW
1
8.4
A communist armed group formed in 1969 to fight the Philippine government
- Formal
1
9.8
A view in philosophy that the world exists by itself and can be known directly
1
6.1
A later part of the Stone Age when people begin farming and make polished stone tools
How Recent
Surface Forms
Etymology
New once worked as an adverb meaning 'recently' or 'freshly', a bit like the modern word newly, and a helpful way to remember this old use is to think of 'just now'. So the archaic adverb new meant 'very recently'.