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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(often followed by 'to') unfamiliar
Example:
errors of someone new to the job
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Similar:
unaccustomed to (not habituated to; unfamiliar with)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having no previous example or precedent or parallel
Example:
a time of unexampled prosperity
Synonyms:
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Similar:
unprecedented (having no precedent; novel)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
Example:
young corn
Synonyms:
new; young
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Adjectives
Similar:
early (being or occurring at an early stage of development)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
Example:
New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew
Synonyms:
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Adjectives
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late (of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Sense 5
Meaning:
In use after medieval times
Example:
New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties
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Adjectives
Similar:
late (of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Lacking training or experience
Example:
raw recruits
Synonyms:
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Adjectives
Similar:
inexperienced; inexperient (lacking practical experience or training)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
Example:
the New World
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Adjectives
Similar:
novel; refreshing (pleasantly new or different)
parvenu; parvenue (of or characteristic of a parvenu)
recent (new)
radical; revolutionary (markedly new or introducing radical change)
rising (newly come into prominence)
sunrise (of an industry or technology; new and developing)
untested; untried (not yet proved or subjected to testing)
unused (not yet put into use)
virgin (being used or worked for the first time)
young (being in its early stage)
newfound (newly discovered)
new-fangled; newfangled ((of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new)
new-sprung; newborn (having just or recently arisen or come into existence)
hot; red-hot (newest or most recent)
fresh ((of a cycle) beginning or occurring again)
bran-new; brand-new; spic-and-span; spick-and-span (conspicuously new)
Also:
modern (belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages)
fresh (recently made, produced, or harvested)
current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)
Attribute:
age (how long something has existed)
Antonym:
old (of long duration; not new)
Derivation:
newness (the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Original and of a kind not seen before
Example:
the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem
Synonyms:
fresh; new; novel
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Adjectives
Similar:
original (being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Other than the former one(s); different
Example:
ready to take a new direction
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Adjectives
Similar:
other (not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Unaffected by use or exposure
Example:
it looks like new
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Adjectives
Similar:
unweathered (not worn by exposure to the weather)
Antonym:
worn (affected by wear; damaged by long use)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very recently
Example:
we are fresh out of tomatoes
Synonyms:
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Context examples:
The smell of tar and salt was something new.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
That new moon may have rattled you because the news came out of the blue.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Catherine's understanding began to awake: an idea of the truth suddenly darted into her mind; and, with the natural blush of so new an emotion, she cried out, Good heaven!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
It was nothing new to him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He followed the new scent into a thicket and found Nig.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Take care what you're about, in this new half.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A process that results in the development of new blood vessels.
(Angiogenic Process, NCI Thesaurus)
A protein that prevents the formation of new blood vessels.
(Angiogenesis Inhibitory Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And responsive out of his deeps had come the new thing—love.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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