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Words people most associate with “new”:

  1. old,
  2. brand,
  3. fresh,
  4. born,
  5. york

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Adjective (11 meanings)

1. not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered.

new

Examples:
  • “a new law”,
  • “new cars”,
  • “a new comet”,
  • “a new friend”,
  • “a new year”,
  • “the New World”
new is the opposite of:
  • old (adjective) - of long duration
new is an attribute of:
  • age (noun) - how long something has existed
Derivationally related form:
  • newness (noun) - the quality of being new
see also:
  • current (adjective) - occurring in or belonging to the present time
  • fresh (adjective) - recently made, produced, or harvested
  • modern (adjective) - belonging to the modern era
new is similar to:
  • novel, refreshing (adjective) - pleasantly new or different
  • parvenu, parvenue (adjective) - of or characteristic of a parvenu
  • recent (adjective) - new
  • revolutionary, radical (adjective) - markedly new or introducing radical change
  • rising (adjective) - newly come into prominence
  • sunrise (adjective) - of an industry or technology
  • untested, untried (adjective) - not yet proved or subjected to testing
  • unused (adjective) - not yet put into use
  • virgin (adjective) - being used or worked for the first time
  • young (adjective) - being in its early stage

2. original and of a kind not seen before.

fresh, new, novel

Example:
  • “the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem”
Derivationally related form:
new is similar to:
  • original (adjective) - being or productive of something fresh and unusual

3. lacking training or experience.

raw, new

Examples:
  • “the new men were eager to fight”,
  • “raw recruits”
Derivationally related form:
  • inexperience, rawness (noun) - lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience
new is similar to:

4. having no previous example or precedent or parallel.

new, unexampled

Example:
  • “a time of unexampled prosperity”
new is similar to:

5. other than the former one(s); different.

new

Examples:
  • “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”
new is similar to:

6. unaffected by use or exposure.

new

Example:
  • “it looks like new”
new is the opposite of:
  • worn (adjective) - affected by wear
new is similar to:
  • unweathered (adjective) - not worn by exposure to the weather

7. (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new.

newfangled, new

Examples:
  • “newfangled ideas”,
  • “she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them”
new is similar to:
  • original (adjective) - being or productive of something fresh and unusual

8. in use after medieval times.

New

Example:
  • “New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties”
Domain of synset - TOPIC:
new is similar to:
  • late (adjective) - of a later stage in the development of a language or literature

9. used of a living language; being the current stage in its development.

Modern, New

Examples:
  • “Modern English”,
  • “New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew”
Derivationally related form:
Domain of synset - TOPIC:
new is similar to:
  • late (adjective) - of a later stage in the development of a language or literature

10. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity.

new, young

Examples:
  • “new potatoes”,
  • “young corn”
new is similar to:
  • early (adjective) - being or occurring at an early stage of development

11. unfamiliar.

new

Examples:
  • “new experiences”,
  • “experiences new to him”,
  • “errors of someone new to the job”
new is similar to:

Adverb (1 meaning)

1. very recently.

newly, freshly, fresh, new

Examples:
  • “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”