new
adj 1: 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" [ant: {old}]
2: 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" [syn:
{new(a)}]
3: having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time
of unexampled prosperity" [syn: {unexampled}]
4: of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a
completely novel proof of a well-known theorem" [syn: {fresh},
{novel}]
5: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to
fight"; "raw recruits"; "he shipped as a green hand on a
vessel" [syn: {raw}, {green}, {wet behind the ears(p)}]
6: of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion [syn: {newfangled}]
7: (often followed by `to') unfamiliar; "new experiences";
"experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the
job" [syn: {new to(p)}]
8: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development;
before complete maturity; "baby carrots"; "new potatoes";
"young corn" [syn: {baby}, {young}]
9: unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new"
10: (linguistics) in use after Medieval times; "New Eqyptian was
the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties" [syn: {New}]
11: (linguistics) used of a living language; being the current
stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew
is Israeli Hebrew" [syn: {Modern}, {New}]
adv : 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" [syn: {recently}, {newly}, {freshly},
{fresh}]