newly Definition

new
adj newer, newest

1. Recently made, bought, built, opened, etc.

Example: a new bike
Thesaurus: recent, current, fresh, just out, late, contemporary, modern, renewed, trendy, up to date, up to the minute, modish, au courant; Antonym: old, outdated.
2. Recently discovered.

Example: a new planet
3. Never having existed before; just invented, etc.

Example: new techniques
4. Fresh; additional; supplementary.

Example: a new consignment
Thesaurus: additional, further, extra, supplementary, increased, more.
5. Recently arrived, installed, etc.
6. Unfamiliar with it; experienced or experiencing for the first time.

Example: He's new to the work
Thesaurus: inexperienced, unseasoned, unskilled; novel, unique, unusual, original, bizarre, unlike, dissimilar, distinct, different, newfangled, unfamiliar, unknown; Antonym: usual, common, hackneyed.
Form: new to someone (chiefly)
Form: new to something
7. Said of a person: changed physically, mentally or morally for the better.

Thesaurus: fresh, virgin, newborn; Antonym: experienced, seasoned.
8. Renewed.

Example: gave us new hope
9. Modern.

Example: the new generation
10. Used in naming a place just founded after an old-established one.

Example: New York

1. Only just; freshly.

Example: a newborn babe
Example: new-baked bread
2. Anew.

noun

1. colloq
Something which is new.
2. Newness.

Derivative: newly

Only just; recently.
Example: newly arrived
Thesaurus: lately, recently, just, latterly.

Again; anew.
Example: newly awakened desire
Thesaurus: afresh, anew.

Derivative: newness
noun

The fact or state of being new
Thesaurus: originality, uniqueness, novelty, oddity, innovation, strangeness, unusualness; Antonym: oldness, ordinariness.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon niwe.

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