fresh

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsnewlyfreshlynew

Other forms of fresh

comparative

fresher·

superlative

freshest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fresh

What does fresh mean?

fresh means "recently made, produced, or harvested". That is the primary sense; the word has 13 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fresh?

fresh has 1 syllable: fresh. In IPA it is /ˈfɹɛʃ/.

What is another word for fresh?

Close synonyms include bracing, brisk, refreshing, refreshful, tonic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fresh?

The recorded antonyms are stale, preserved, salty.

Is fresh a common word?

fresh is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fresh?

2 words rhyme with fresh. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.