recently
- adverb
- /ˈriːsəntli/
- You may have heard from my... friends in the press, that I recently got married.
- more recently
- most recently
- recently published
Things have been pretty rough recently with my mental health.
- Things have been pretty rough recently with my mental health.
- I know you had him on the show recently, so yeah.
- And she then became a Christian recently in the last few months.
- I guess I've recently met a little person.
- And then most recently started back last summer.
- I met a former Marine recently named Zach.
- And as as John Wick recently said, yeah, I'm back.
- So yeah, recently we found each other, met up.
- And she died recently, about eight or nine months ago.
- And recently, we had a major breakthrough.
- And I only said it recently to someone.
- I have taken up recently the practice of peeing, sitting down.
- One, I recently lost my brother, God rest his soul.
Examples
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She mentioned that she recently started a new job at the hospital.
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And well, you just recently wrote a book on it, right?
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I know you had him on the show recently, so yeah.
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And she then became a Christian recently in the last few months.
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And she died recently, about eight or nine months ago.
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So for me, I had recently been single.
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Things have been pretty rough recently with my mental health.
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But it's okay 'cause I recently had a breakthrough.
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Both my parents were recently struck by serious illnesses.
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I have a stepson who recently acquired a dog.
Synonyms
A short time before now
In the period just before now
Very recently, only a short time ago
A few days ago
Happening in the recent past, in the last few weeks or months
During the time people can still remember
Recently, in the past few weeks or months
In the recent past
Antonyms
How Recent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Recently comes from the Latin word recens, meaning 'fresh' or 'new', and is made from recent and the ending -ly. So, recently means something happened 'not long ago'.