Fresh definition
Not salt.
adjective
Recently; newly.
Fresh out of milk; muffins baked fresh daily.
adverb
In a fresh manner.
adverb
To make or become fresh.
verb
Cool and refreshing; invigorating.
A fresh spring day.
adjective
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Not saline or salty.
Fresh water.
adjective
Fairly strong and often cool; brisk.
A fresh wind.
adjective
The early part.
The fresh of the day.
noun
A freshet.
noun
Having original strength, vigor, quality, taste, etc.
- Not preserved by being salted, pickled, canned, or frozen.fresh meat, fresh vegetables.
- Not spoiled, rotten, or stale.
- Not tired; vigorous; lively.To feel fresh after a nap.
- Not worn, soiled, faded, etc.; vivid; bright; clean.
- Youthful or healthy in appearance.A fresh complexion.
adjective
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Not known before; new; recent.
Fresh information.
adjective
Additional; further.
A fresh start.
adjective
Original, spontaneous, and stimulating.
Fresh ideas.
adjective
Brisk; strong.
adjective
The fresh part.
noun
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A pool or stream of fresh water.
noun
The definition of fresh is something recently harvested, recently produced or newly made.
An example of fresh is just squeezed orange juice.
adjective
A freshet.
noun
(informal) Bold and saucy; impudent.
adjective
(slang) Excellent; first-rate.
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New to one's experience; not encountered before.
Fresh evidence.
adjective
Unusual or different.
A fresh slant on the problem.
adjective
Recently made, produced, or harvested; not stale or spoiled.
Fresh bread.
adjective
Not preserved, as by canning, smoking, or freezing.
Fresh vegetables.
adjective
Not yet used or soiled; clean.
A fresh sheet of paper.
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Free from impurity or pollution; pure.
Fresh air.
adjective
Not dull or faded.
A fresh memory.
adjective
Having just arrived.
Fashions fresh from Paris.
adjective
Untried or trained but not experienced.
Fresh volunteers.
adjective
Rested and ready for a long ride. Used of horses.
adjective
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Having the glowing or unspoiled appearance of youth.
A fresh complexion.
adjective
Designating or of a cow that has just begun to give milk, as after having borne a calf.
adjective
Recently produced, obtained, or arrived.
adjective
Newly made.
A fresh pot of coffee.
adjective
Inexperienced; unaccustomed.
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Having just arrived.
adjective
(informal) Bold; impertinent; impudent.
adjective
Newly produced or obtained.
He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.
I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.
adjective
Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.
After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.
I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.
A glass of fresh milk.
adjective
Refreshing or cool.
What a nice fresh breeze.
adjective
Rested; not tired or fatigued.
adjective
In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
A fresh hand on a ship.
adjective
(computing, of a release package or software installation) Having only the files and settings of a specific release of the software package; without updates or upgrades that were released subsequent to the release of a specific version.
A fresh installation of Windows XP has Internet Explorer version 6.
QA uses a fresh copy of the old version to test backward-compatibility of new add-ons.
adjective
The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
noun
No one liked his fresh comments.
adjective
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Hey, don't get fresh with me!
adjective
Having recently calved and therefore with milk. Used of a cow.
adjective
Revived or reinvigorated; refreshed.
I was fresh as a daisy after the nap.
adjective
fresh out (of)
- having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
idiom
Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
fresh
Plural:
freshesAdjective
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of fresh
- Middle English from Old English fersc pure, not salty and from Old French freis (feminine fresche) new, recent of Germanic origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English fresch, fersch, from Old English fersc (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preisk- (“fresh”). Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Danish frisk (“fresh”), fersk, Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пресный (pr'ésnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”).
From Wiktionary
- 1848, US slang, probably from German frech (“impudent, cheeky, insolent”), from Middle High German vrech (“bold, brave, lively”), from Old High German freh (“greedy, eager, avaricious, covetous”), from Proto-Germanic *frekaz (“greedy, outrageous, courageous, capable, active”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pereg- (“to be quick, twitch, sprinkle, splash”). Cognate with Old English frec (“greedy; eager, bold, daring; dangerous”). More at freak.
From Wiktionary