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newish

newish

3 2.8
Made or bought fairly recently and not very old
  • adjective
  • /ˈnuːɪʃ/
  • Informal
translation icon : relativamente nuevo
  • And Dan was newish, I think at the time, I think he might have been a year in.
  • a newish hotel
  • a newish guy
  • a newish house

This has been out not I mean it's newish, new to me.

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Examples

  • And the great thing about this idea of real options is that it's kind of a newish approach to pricing projects or to project evaluation.

  • She's a newish transfer student, and I want her to make friends with the right people.

  • When does the "newish" part come in?

  • What is that building over there, the newish one? he wanted to know.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • I do hope that it is someone newish who will be willing to hang in there for the long run.

    Blog text (3)
  • The newish airline had never had a fatal crash before.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • We entered Valley Court, which sloped down and around a gentle hill, lined with newish houses.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • If you're running on older hardware, or even newish hardware, it's quite possible that your FPS may be impacted.

    Blog text (20)
  • If you'd rather explore on your own, hit Downtown's newish two-mile-long Riverwalk, which meanders along the Milwaukee River.

    Blog text (30)
  • The car, a newish white Toyota, was parked across the street.

Synonyms

recent
vsnewish
1.0

Happening not long ago

is slightly less current or immediate than that
fresh
vsnewish
306 1.0

New and not used before

is more about slight novelty rather than complete originality
novel
vsnewish
72 5.1

New and different, not seen or done before

focuses more on mild recency rather than striking originality
nascent
vsnewish
  • Formal
16 8.1

Beginning to exist and showing signs of future growth

is less about the starting phase and more about slight age
newfangled
vsnewish
9 7.9

Recently made and thought too modern or unnecessary

is milder and lacks the disapproving modern attitude
new-made
vsnewish
1 3.0

Created only recently and not used before

is somewhat less recently made or obvious in appearance
neoteric
vsnewish
1 9.3

New and modern in style

is more everyday and less formal in referring to slight novelty
recentish
vsnewish
  • Informal
7.0

Not very new but not old

is a little older or less current than that

Antonyms

old
1.0

A thing that has existed for a long time and is not new

78 5.0

No longer useful or fashionable because it is old

How New

brand-new
321 1.2
new
1.0
newish
  • Informal
3 2.8
recent
1.0

Surface Forms

newish positive
newisher comparative
newishest superlative

Morphology

newish = new (transparent) = new + ish

The adjective 'new' plus the productive suffix '-ish' meaning 'somewhat' yields the expected meaning 'somewhat new', which is directly derivable by learners.

Etymology

Newish is simply the word new plus the ending -ish, which means 'somewhat' or 'kind of', as in greenish. So newish means 'somewhat new', recent but not completely brand new.