Adjective new has 11 senses
- new - 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"
Antonyms: old, age-old, antediluvian, antiquated, archaic, antique, auld, cold, stale, hand-me-down, hand-down, hoary, rusty, immemorial, long-ago, longtime, patched, secondhand, used, sunset, yellow, yellowed
- 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"
Antonym: same (indirect, via other)
- new, unexampled - having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity"
Antonym: precedented (indirect, via unprecedented)
- fresh, new, novel - of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
Antonym: unoriginal (indirect, via original)
- raw, new, wet behind the ears - lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"; "he was still wet behind the ears when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel"
Antonym: experienced (indirect, via inexperienced)
- newfangled, new - of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion
Antonym: unoriginal (indirect, via original)
- new, new to - (often followed by `to') unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job"
Antonym: accustomed (indirect, via unaccustomed)
- new, young - (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn"
Antonyms: late, later (indirect, via early)
- new - unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new"
Antonym: worn (indirect, via unworn)
- New - in use after Medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
Antonym: early (indirect, via middle, late)
Antonym: middle (indirect, via late, early)
- Modern, New - used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
Antonym: early (indirect, via middle, late)
Antonym: middle (indirect, via late, early)
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Adverbial new has 1 sense
- recently, newly, freshly, fresh, new - 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"
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