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freshly

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fresh  (frsh)
adj. fresh·er, fresh·est
1. New to one's experience; not encountered before.
2. Novel; different: a fresh slant on the problem. See Synonyms at new.
3. Recently made, produced, or harvested; not stale or spoiled: fresh bread.
4. Not preserved, as by canning, smoking, or freezing: fresh vegetables.
5. Not saline or salty: fresh water.
6. Not yet used or soiled; clean: a fresh sheet of paper.
7. Free from impurity or pollution; pure: fresh air.
8. Additional; new: fresh evidence.
9. Bright and clear; not dull or faded: a fresh memory.
10. Having the glowing, unspoiled appearance of youth: a fresh complexion.
11. Untried; inexperienced: fresh recruits.
12. Having just arrived; straight: fashions fresh from Paris.
13. Revived or reinvigorated; refreshed: I was fresh as a daisy after the nap.
14. Fairly strong; brisk: a fresh wind.
15. Informal Bold and saucy; impudent.
16. Having recently calved and therefore with milk. Used of a cow.
17. Slang Excellent; first-rate.
adv.
Recently; newly: fresh out of milk; muffins baked fresh daily.
n.
1. The early part: the fresh of the day.
2. A freshet.

[Middle English, from Old English fersc, pure, not salty, and from Old French freis (feminine fresche), new, recent, of Germanic origin.]

freshly adv.
freshness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.freshly - very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes"
2.freshly - in an impudent or impertinent manner; "a lean, swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently"
Translations
freshly [ˈfreʃlɪ] ADVrecién
freshly squeezed orange juicezumo m de naranja recién exprimido
freshly paintedrecién pintado
freshly bakedrecién salido del horno
freshly [ˈfrɛʃli] adv [painted] → fraîchement
freshly baked → qui sort du four
freshly ground [pepper, coffee] → fraîchement moulu(e) freshly squeezed orange juice
freshly squeezed orange juice njus m d'oranges pressées
freshly
advfrisch; a freshly baked cakeein frisch gebackener Kuchen; the freshly dug gravedas frische Grab
freshly [ˈfrɛʃlɪ] advdi recente, di fresco, appena
freshly [ˈfrɛʃlɪ] advdi recente, di fresco, appena


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He is then immediately taken from his proud yet sorrowing parents and adopted by some childless Equilateral, who is bound by oath never to permit the child henceforth to enter his former home or so much as to look upon his relations again, for fear lest the freshly developed organism may, by force of unconscious imitation, fall back again into his hereditary level.
Children freshly befurbelowed, were gathering for their games under the oaks.
They had, as it were, an extent and mass for which I had not been prepared and in the presence of which I found myself, freshly, a little scared as well as a little proud.
 
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