Definition of NEW

new

Plural: news

Adjective

  • Existing for a short time; not previously known or used.
  • 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"
  • unaffected by use or exposure
    • "it looks like new"

Adjective Satellite

  • original and of a kind not seen before
  • lacking training or experience
    • "the new men were eager to fight"
  • having no previous example or precedent or parallel
  • 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"
  • (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new
    • "newfangled ideas"
    • "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them"
  • in use after medieval times
    • "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
  • used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
    • "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
  • (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
    • "new potatoes"
  • unfamiliar
    • "new experiences"
    • "experiences new to him"
    • "errors of someone new to the job"

Adverb

  • very recently
    • "they are newly married"
    • "newly raised objections"
    • "a newly arranged hairdo"
    • "grass new washed by the rain"

Adj

  • Recently made, or created.
  • Recently made, or created.
  • Of recent origin; having taken place recently.
  • Additional; recently discovered.
  • Current or later, as opposed to former.
  • Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
  • In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
  • Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
  • Newborn.
  • Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
  • Recently arrived or appeared.
  • Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
  • Next; about to begin or recently begun.

Adv

  • Synonym of newly, especially in composition.
  • As new; from scratch.

Noun

  • Something that has recently been made, discovered, or introduced.
  • Things that are new.
  • A typically light-coloured lager brewed by the bottom-fermentation method.
  • A naval cadet who has just embarked on training.

Verb

  • Synonym of new up.
  • To make new; to recreate; to renew.

Examples

  • A new ’Q’ tile appeared, offering exciting scoring possibilities in Words With Friends.
  • Are you going to buy a new car or a second-hand one?
  • Don't worry that you're new at this job; you'll get better with time. I'm new at this business, I'm still new to the work.
  • Have you met the new guy in town? He is the new kid at school.
  • I can't see you for a while; the pain is still too new. Did you see the new King Lear at the theatre?
  • Introducing a new word to your vocabulary can improve your Scrabble game.
  • My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older. We had been in our new house for five years by then.
  • My sister has a new baby, and our mother is excited to finally have a grandchild.
  • New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street.
  • Out with the old, in with the new.
  • That shirt is dirty. Go and put on a new one. I feel like a new person after a good night's sleep. After the accident, I saw the world with new eyes.
  • The idea was new to me. I need to meet new people.
  • They are scraping the site clean to build new.
  • This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.
  • We expect to grow at 10% annually in the new decade.
  • We turned up some new evidence from the old files.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English newe, from Old English nīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *niwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos (“new”), from *néwos.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots new (“new”), West Frisian nij (“new”), Dutch nieuw (“new”), Low German nee (“new”), German neu (“new”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ny (“new”), Icelandic nýr (“new”), Faroese nýggjur (“new”), Latin novus (“new”), Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”), Welsh newydd (“new”), Russian но́вый (nóvyj, “new”), Armenian նոր (nor, “new”), Persian نو (now, “new”),Northern Kurdish nû (“new”), Hindi नया (nayā, “new”), Tocharian B ñuwe (“new”).
Compare also Old English nū (“now”). More at now. Doublet of nuevo and novuss.

Synonyms

fresh, freshly, Modern, newfangled, newly, novel, raw, unexampled, young, ;, afresh#Adverb, all-new, anew#Adverb, born-again, brand new, brand spanking new, ceno-, cherry, current, freshly made, green, hot, mint, nascent, neo-, new, new up, new-laid, newborn, newish, pristine, recent, red-hot, reformed, refreshed, reinvigorated, revived, singular, strange, unfamiliar, unused, verdurous, virgin, virginal, youthful

Scrabble Score: 6

new: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
new: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
new: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

new: valid Words With Friends Word