| adjective | not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered “a new law” |
| adjective | original and of a kind not seen before “the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem” |
| adjective | lacking training or experience “the new men were eager to fight” |
| adjective | having no previous example or precedent or parallel “a time of unexampled prosperity” |
| adjective | other than the former one(s); different “they now have a new leaders” |
| adjective | unaffected by use or exposure “it looks like new” |
| adjective | (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new “newfangled ideas” |
| adjective | in use after medieval times “New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties” |
| adjective | used of a living language; being the current stage in its development “Modern English” |
| adjective | (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity “new potatoes” |
| adjective | unfamiliar “new experiences” |
| adverb | very recently “they are newly married” |
| newness | noun | the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness |
| freshness | noun | originality by virtue of being new and surprising |
| rawness | noun | lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience |
| modern | noun | a contemporary person |
| modernness | noun | the quality of being current or of the present |