1. Not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
   "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"; "a new law"; "new cars"
    
2. Original and of a kind not seen before
   "The artist's new style was unlike anything in contemporary art";
   - fresh, novel
    
3. Lacking training or experience
   "the new men were eager to fight";
   - raw
    
4. Having no previous example, precedent or parallel
   "a time of new prosperity";
   - unexampled
    
5. Other than the former one(s); different
   "ready to take a new direction"; "they now have a new leaders"; "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"
    
6. (often followed by ‘to’) unfamiliar
   "errors of someone new to the job"; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"
    
7. Unaffected by use or exposure
   "it looks like new"
    
8. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
   "new potatoes";
   - young

1. Very recently
   "grass new washed by the rain";
   - newly, freshly, fresh

1. (linguistics) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
   "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew";
   - Modern
    
2. (linguistics) in use after medieval times
   "New Egyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"

Sounds like: ne

Derived forms: newest, newer

See also: age, brand-new, bran-new, current, early, fresh, green [informal], hot, inexperienced, inexperient [non-standard], late, modern, newborn, newfangled, new-fangled, newfound, new-sprung, novel, original, other, parvenu, parvenue, radical, recent, red-hot, refreshing, revolutionary, rising, spic-and-span, spick-and-span, sunrise, unaccustomed to, unprecedented, untested, untried, unused, unweathered, virgin, young

Antonym: old, worn

Encyclopedia: New, Michael