fresh

  • adjective 1 not previously known or used; new or different. 2 (of food) recently made or obtained; not preserved. 3 recently created and not faded or impaired: the memory was fresh in their minds. 4 (of water) not salty. 5 (of the wind) cool and fairly strong. 6 pleasantly clean, invigorating, and cool: fresh air. 7 full of energy and vigour. 8 informal presumptuous or impudent.

  • adverb newly; recently.

  — DERIVATIVES freshly adverb freshness noun.

  — ORIGIN Old English, not salt, fit for drinking.

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