new

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”

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”

having no previous example or precedent or parallel

• “a time of unexampled prosperity”

of a kind not seen before

• “the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem”

lacking training or experience

• “the new men were eager to fight”
• “raw recruits”
• “he was still wet behind the ears when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel”

of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion

(often followed by `to'') unfamiliar

• “new experiences”
• “experiences new to him”
• “errors of someone new to the job”

(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity

• “new potatoes”
• “young corn”

unaffected by use or exposure

• “it looks like new”

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

• “Modern English”
• “New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew”

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”