Dictionary Definition
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 was still wet behind the
ears when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel" [syn: raw, 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; "new potatoes"; "young corn"
[syn: young]
9 unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like
new"
10 in use after Medieval times; "New Eqyptian was
the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
11 used of a living language; being the current
stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli
Hebrew" [syn: Modern] 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]
Extensive Definition
New or NEW may refer to:
- New, a 2004 Tamil movie
- "New", a song by No Doubt from Return of Saturn
- New (EP), an EP from Australian Alternative rock band Regurgitator
- new (C++), a built-in operator in the C++ programming language
- New Orleans Lakefront Airport IATA airport code
- New Century Financial Corporation NYSE stock abbreviation
- Network of enlightened Women, a conservative university women's organization
- Nepal Bhasa language ISO 639 language code
- Newcraighall railway station, Scotland; National Rail station code NEW.
- NEW, the callsign of Network Ten's station in Perth, Western Australia.
- Net explosive weight
- Tom New (b. 1985), an English cricket player
- New River, various rivers
See also
new in German: NEW
new in French: NEW
new in Italian: NEW
new in Japanese: NEW
new in Kölsch: NEW (Watt ėßß datt?)
new in Simple English: New
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ab ovo, accessory, actual, added, additional, afresh, again, all the rage, all the
thing, ancillary,
anew, another, another time, as is, as
new, authentic,
auxiliary,
avant-garde, being,
bis, callow, collateral, contemporaneous,
contemporary,
contributory,
creative, current, de novo, dewy, else, encore, ever-new, evergreen, existent, existing, extant, extra, farther, fashionable, first-hand,
firsthand, fledgling, fresh, freshly, from scratch, further, green, held back, held in reserve,
held out, hip, imaginative, immanent, immature, immediate, in abeyance, in
fashion, in hand, in style, in vogue, independent, instant, intact, lately, latest, maiden, maidenly, mint, mod, modern, modernistic, more, neoteric, nestling, new-fashioned,
newfangled, newfashioned, newly, novel, of late, once again, once
more, original,
other, over again,
plus, popular, present, present-age,
present-day, present-time, prevalent, primary, pristine, put aside, put by,
raw, recent, recently, regenerated, reinvigorated, renewed, reserve, revived, revolutionary, running, saved, sempervirent, smart, spare, stored, strange, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, suspended, that be, that is,
to spare, topical,
trendy, ulterior, unaccustomed, unapplied, unbeaten, unconsumed, underived, undeveloped, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended, unfledged, unhandled, unique, unspent, untapped, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unutilized, up-to-date,
up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, vernal, virgin, virginal, waived, yet again, young