new

Recently made, or created.

Adjective

  1. Recently made, or created.
    • This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.
    • The cookers cost £350 new but £150 secondhand.
    • Within a half-hour, Gould (pronounced GOLD) was stirring in pieces of breaded and sautéed chicken, pouring the finished sauce over fettucini noodles cooked al dente and serving one of the newest entrees from his growing...

    Synonyms: brand new recent neo- ceno-

    Antonyms: ancient dated old

    1. Of recent origin; having taken place recently.

      • I can't see you for a while; the pain is still too new. Did you see the new King Lear at the theatre?

      Synonyms: brand new recent neo- ceno-

      Antonyms: ancient dated old

  2. Additional; recently discovered.
    • We turned up some new evidence from the old files.

    Synonyms: recent

    Antonyms: dated old

  3. Current or later, as opposed to former.
    • My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older. We had been in our new house for five years by then.

    Synonyms: current

    Antonyms: former old

  4. Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
    • New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street.

    Antonyms: old

  5. In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
    • Are you going to buy a new car or a second-hand one?

    Synonyms: brand new brand spanking new mint pristine

    Antonyms: old used worn

  6. Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
    • That shirt is dirty. Go and put on a new one. I feel like a new person after a good night's sleep. After the accident, I saw the world with new eyes.

    Synonyms: born-again reformed refreshed reinvigorated revived

    Antonyms: old

  7. Newborn.
    • My sister has a new baby, and our mother is excited to finally have a grandchild.

    Synonyms: newborn young

    Antonyms: old

  8. Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
    • Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear...
    • The idea was new to me. I need to meet new people.

    Synonyms: strange unfamiliar

    Antonyms: familiar old

  9. Recently arrived or appeared.
    • 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal...
    • Have you met the new guy in town? He is the new kid at school.

    Synonyms: novel singular

    Antonyms: established

  10. Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
    • Don't worry that you're new at this job; you'll get better with time. I'm new at this business, I'm still new to the work.

    Synonyms: brand new green

    Antonyms: accustomed experienced expert

  11. Next; about to begin or recently begun.
    • We expect to grow at 10% annually in the new decade.

Origin

From Middle English neowe, neue, new, newe, nywe, from Old English nēowe, nīewe, nīowe, nīwe, from Proto-West Germanic *niwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz (“new”), from Proto-Indo-European *néwos, *néwyos (“new”). Compare also Old English nū (“now”). More at now. Doublet of nuevo, novuss, and neo-. Cognates Cognate with Scots new (“new”), North Frisian nai, nei, nii (“new”), Saterland Frisian näi (“new”), West Frisian nij (“new”), Alemannic German nöi, nüüw (“new”), Bavarian neich (“new”), Cimbrian naüge (“new”), Dutch nieuw, nij (“new”), Dutch Low Saxon nij (“new”), German neu, new, neuw (“new”), Low German nee, neei (“new”), Luxembourgish nei (“new”), Vilamovian noj, noü (“new”), Yiddish נײַ (nay, “new”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ny (“new”), Faroese nýggjur (“new”), Icelandic nýr (“new”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌾𐌹𐍃 (niujis, “new”); also Breton nevez (“new”), Cornish...

Forms

newer newest noo nu newe

Synonyms

new all-new brand new brand spanking new cherry fresh freshly made green hot mint nascent newish new-laid novel pristine red-hot unused verdurous virgin virginal youthful

Antonyms

old

Hyponyms

brand new emergent young first inventive additional inexperienced beginner

Derived

German New Guinea New Abbey New Aberdeen New Abra New Addington New Administrative Capital New Albany New Albin New Albion New Alexander New Alexandria New Alresford New Alsace New Amsterdam New Antioch New Antique New Ash Green New Asturias New Athens New Auburn New Auckland New Augusta New Australia New Avon

Adverb

  1. Synonym of newly, especially in composition.
    • Near-synonym: recently
    • new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown hay, new-laid eggs

    Synonyms: freshly recently newly

  2. As new; from scratch.
    • They are scraping the site clean to build new.

    Synonyms: anew afresh

Forms

more new most new noo nu newe

Related

new-

Noun

  1. Things that are new.
    • Out with the old, in with the new.
  2. A typically light-coloured lager brewed by the bottom-fermentation method.

    Antonyms: old

  3. A naval cadet who has just embarked on training.
    • In the Britannia "news" were worms, to be trodden on […] - 1956, Naval Review (London), volume 44, page 286:

Forms

news noo nu newe

Verb

  1. Synonym of new up.

    Synonyms: new up

  2. To make new; to recreate; to renew.

Forms

news newing newed noo nu newe

Derived

benew new up renew