new

Adjective

• unfamiliar
  • new experiences
    
  • experiences new to him
    
  • errors of someone new to the job
    

• (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
  • new potatoes
    
  • young corn
    

• used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
  • Modern English
    
  • New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew
    

• in use after medieval times
  • New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties
    

• (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new
  • newfangled ideas
    
  • she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them
    

• unaffected by use or exposure
  • it looks like new
    

• other than the former one(s); different
  • they now have a new leaders
    
  • my new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it
    
  • ready to take a new direction
    

• having no previous example or precedent or parallel
  • a time of unexampled prosperity
    

• lacking training or experience
  • the new men were eager to fight
    
  • raw recruits
    

• original and of a kind not seen before
  • the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem
    

• not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
  • a new law
    
  • new cars
    
  • a new comet
    
  • a new friend
    
  • a new year
    
  • the New World
    

Adverb

• very recently
  • they are newly married
    
  • newly raised objections
    
  • a newly arranged hairdo
    
  • grass new washed by the rain
    
  • a freshly cleaned floor
    
  • we are fresh out of tomatoes
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  young , Modern , New , newfangled , new(a) , unexampled , raw , fresh , novel , newly , freshly
• Antonyms: 
  worn , old