adjective
- Not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered.
- usage: "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"
- Original and of a kind not seen before.
- usage: "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
- Lacking training or experience.
- usage: "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"
- synonyms: raw
- Having no previous example or precedent or parallel.
- usage: "a time of unexampled prosperity"
- synonyms: unexampled
- Other than the former one(s); different.
- usage: "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"
- Unaffected by use or exposure.
- usage: "it looks like new"
- Of a new kind or fashion. ( gratuitously new)
- usage: "newfangled ideas"; "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them"
- synonyms: newfangled
- In use after medieval times.
- usage: "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
- Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development.
- usage: "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
- synonyms: Modern
- Of crops. ( harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity)
- usage: "new potatoes"; "young corn"
- synonyms: young
- Unfamiliar.
- usage: "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job"
adverb
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