- recent - being new in a time not long past; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees"
Antonym: old (indirect, via new)
- late, recent - of the immediate past or just previous to the present time; "a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the journal"
Antonym: present (indirect, via future, past)
Antonym: future (indirect, via past, present)
- recent - near to or not long before the present; "recent times"; "of recent origin"
Antonym: nonmodern (indirect, via modern)