adjective
- Recently made, produced, or harvested.
- usage: "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"; "fresh lettuce"
- Of a cycle. ( beginning or occurring again)
- usage: "a fresh start"; "fresh ideas"
- Imparting vitality and energy.
- usage: "the bracing mountain air"
- synonyms: bracing, brisk, refreshing, refreshful, tonic
- Original and of a kind not seen before.
- usage: "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
- Not canned or otherwise preserved.
- usage: "fresh vegetables"
- Not containing or composed of salt water.
- usage: "fresh water"
- synonyms: sweet
- Having recently calved and therefore able to give milk.
- usage: "the cow is fresh"
- With restored energy.
- synonyms: invigorated, refreshed, reinvigorated
- Not soured or preserved.
- usage: "sweet milk"
- synonyms: sweet, unfermented
- Free from impurities.
- usage: "clean water"; "fresh air"
- synonyms: clean
- Not yet used or soiled.
- usage: "a fresh shirt"; "a fresh sheet of paper"; "an unused envelope"
- synonyms: unused
- Improperly forward or bold.
- usage: "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me"
adverb
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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