Definition of NEW

new

Meanings

Adjective

  • 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"

Antonyms

old, worn

Scrabble Score: 6

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

Words With Friends Score: 7

new is a valid Words With Friends word