- adj. (often followed by `to”) unfamiliar (view details)
- adj. having no previous example or precedent or parallel (view details)
- adj. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development (view details)
- adj. used of a living language (view details)
- adj. in use after Medieval times (view details)
- adj. lacking training or experience (view details)
- adj. not of long duration (view details)
- adj. of a kind not seen before (view details)
- adj. of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion (view details)
- adj. unaffected by use or exposure (view details)
- adv. very recently (view details)
Meaning 1: (adjective) (often followed by `to”) unfamiliar
Usage Example(s): errors of someone new to the job, experiences new to him, new experiences
Synonym(s): new to(p) ( what does new to(p) stand for? )
Similar(s): unaccustomed ( what does unaccustomed stand for? )
Meaning 2: (adjective) having no previous example or precedent or parallel
Usage Example(s): a time of unexampled prosperity
Synonym(s): unexampled ( what does unexampled stand for? )
Similar(s): unprecedented ( what does unprecedented stand for? )
Meaning 3: (adjective) (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development, before complete maturity
Usage Example(s): new potatoes, young corn
Synonym(s): young ( what does young stand for? )
Similar(s): early ( what does early stand for? )
Meaning 4: (adjective) used of a living language, being the current stage in its development
Usage Example(s): Modern English, New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew
Synonym(s): Modern ( what does Modern stand for? )
Similar(s): late ( what does late stand for? )
Meaning 5: (adjective) in use after Medieval times
Usage Example(s): New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties
Similar(s): late
Meaning 6: (adjective) lacking training or experience
Usage Example(s): he was still wet behind the ears when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel, raw recruits, the new men were eager to fight
Synonym(s): raw ( what does raw stand for? ), wet behind the ears(p) ( what does wet behind the ears(p) stand for? )
Similar(s): inexperienced ( what does inexperienced stand for? )
Meaning 7: (adjective) not of long duration, having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
Usage Example(s): a new comet, a new friend, a new law, a new year, new cars, the New World
Opposite(s): old ( what does old stand for? )
Similar(s): bran-new ( what does bran-new stand for? ), brand-new ( what does brand-new stand for? ), fresh ( what does fresh stand for? ), hot ( what does hot stand for? ), new-sprung(a) ( what does new-sprung(a) stand for? ), newborn ( what does newborn stand for? ), newfound ( what does newfound stand for? ), newly arisen ( what does newly arisen stand for? ), novel ( what does novel stand for? ), parvenu ( what does parvenu stand for? ), parvenue ( what does parvenue stand for? ), radical ( what does radical stand for? ), recent ( what does recent stand for? ), red-hot ( what does red-hot stand for? ), refreshing ( what does refreshing stand for? ), revolutionary ( what does revolutionary stand for? ), rising ( what does rising stand for? ), spic-and-span ( what does spic-and-span stand for? ), spick-and-span ( what does spick-and-span stand for? ), sunrise(a) ( what does sunrise(a) stand for? ), untested ( what does untested stand for? ), untried ( what does untried stand for? ), unused ( what does unused stand for? ), virgin ( what does virgin stand for? )
Worth Checking: current ( what does current stand for? ), fresh, immature ( what does immature stand for? ), modern ( what does modern stand for? ), unworn ( what does unworn stand for? ), young
Attribute(s): age ( what does age stand for? )
Meaning 8: (adjective) of a kind not seen before
Usage Example(s): the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem
Synonym(s): fresh, novel
Similar(s): original ( what does original stand for? )
Meaning 9: (adjective) of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion
Synonym(s): newfangled ( what does newfangled stand for? )
Similar(s): original
Meaning 10: (adjective) unaffected by use or exposure
Usage Example(s): it looks like new
Similar(s): unworn
Meaning 11: (adverb) very recently
Usage Example(s): a freshly cleaned floor, a newly arranged hairdo, grass new washed by the rain, newly raised objections, they are newly married, we are fresh out of tomatoes
Synonym(s): fresh, freshly ( what does freshly stand for? ), newly ( what does newly stand for? ), recently ( what does recently stand for? )
Anagram1 for new: wen (What does wen stand for?)
1An anagram is a word that results from the rearrangement of letters of another word. For example, an anagram of Mary is Army. Anagrams are fun!
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