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Fresh   /frɛʃ/   Listen
Fresh

adjective
(compar. fresher; superl. freshest)
1.
Recently made, produced, or harvested.  "A fresh scent" , "Fresh lettuce"
2.
(of a cycle) beginning or occurring again.  "Fresh ideas"
3.
Imparting vitality and energy.  Synonyms: bracing, brisk, refreshful, refreshing, tonic.
4.
Original and of a kind not seen before.  Synonyms: new, novel.
5.
Not canned or otherwise preserved.
6.
Not containing or composed of salt water.  Synonym: sweet.
7.
Having recently calved and therefore able to give milk.
8.
With restored energy.  Synonyms: invigorated, refreshed, reinvigorated.
9.
Not soured or preserved.  Synonyms: sweet, unfermented.
10.
Free from impurities.  Synonym: clean.  "Fresh air"
11.
Not yet used or soiled.  Synonym: unused.  "A fresh sheet of paper" , "An unused envelope"
12.
Improperly forward or bold.  Synonyms: impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise.  "Impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup" , "An impudent boy given to insulting strangers" , "Don't get wise with me!"
adverb
1.
Very recently.  Synonyms: freshly, new, newly.  "Newly raised objections" , "A newly arranged hairdo" , "Grass new washed by the rain" , "A freshly cleaned floor" , "We are fresh out of tomatoes"



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... from among the women, who have, anyhow, to keep night duty in the large five-roomed house, inside the garden back entrance, and station them there for the special purpose of preparing the necessary viands for the girls. Fresh vegetables are subject to some rule of distribution, so they can be issued to them from the general manager's office. Or they might possibly require money or be in need of some things or other. And it will be all right ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... still felt sure he would come, and I went down into the room where he used to sleep, and saw Mrs. Wilson had put all in order, and fresh blankets sheets were on the little bed, all ready for him. So many things put me in mind of the loving, gentle disposition. A little flower-vase I valued very much had been broken by Bogie romping with one of my nieces, and knocking it down. ...
— J. Cole • Emma Gellibrand
... "I would make her repent in sackcloth and ashes!" Then Madame Staubach had again promised that the sackcloth and ashes should be there. She remembered all this as she thought of relenting,—as she perceived that to relent would be sweet to her, and she made herself rigid with fresh resolves. If the man's coming had been accidental, why had not the story been told to her? She could understand nothing of that forgiveness of which Linda had spoken; and had not Linda confessed that she loved this man? Would she not rather have hated him who had so intruded upon her, had there been ...
— Linda Tressel • Anthony Trollope
... discovery and flight to Canada was the commonplace of every morning's paper; such a commonplace that he had been sensible of an effort in the papers to vary the tiresome repetition of the same old fact by some novel grace of wit, or some fresh picturesqueness in putting it. In the presence of the directors, he had refused to admit it to himself; but after they adjourned, and he was left alone, he realized the truth. He was like those fools, exactly like them, in what they had done, and in the way of ...
— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells
... ice, two miles eastward, I was one day fishing in company with two others, the old Gabiwabikoke and his son John Baptist. It was about ten o'clock in the morning—a fresh breeze from the southwest had previously been getting up—when the hook-line which I was playing up and down began to take an oblique course as though it were moved by a current. Surprised, I looked up and around me. When glancing toward ...
— Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes • Garrick Mallery


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