| Adj. | 1. | 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"current - occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" fresh - not stale or old; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent" modern - belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric" young, immature - (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people" old - of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money" | |
| 2. | 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"other - not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; "today isn't any other day"- the White Queen; "the construction of highways and other public works"; "he asked for other employment"; "any other person would tell the truth"; "his other books are still in storage"; "then we looked at the other house"; "hearing was good in his other ear"; "the other sex"; "she lived on the other side of the street from me"; "went in the other direction" | |
| 3. | new - having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity"unprecedented - having no precedent; novel; "an unprecedented expansion in population and industry" | |
| 4. | new - of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"original - being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind" | |
| 5. | new - 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" | |
| 6. | new - of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashionoriginal - being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind" | |
| 7. | new - (often followed by `to') unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job"unaccustomed - not habituated to; unfamiliar with; "unaccustomed to wearing suits" | |
| 8. | new - (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn"early - being or occurring at an early stage of development; "in an early stage"; "early forms of life"; "early man"; "an early computer" | |
| 9. | new - unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new" | |
| 10. | New - in use after Medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"late - of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages; "Late Greek" | |
| 11. | New - used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"late - of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages; "Late Greek" | |
| Adv. | 1. | 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" | |