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fresh
adjective · Say it: FRESH
What it means
Foundationnewly made, picked or arrived, and not old, stale or used
We bought fresh strawberries from the farm shop on the way home.
Similar and opposite words
Synonyms (similar meaning)
- crisp
- new
- recent
Antonyms (opposite meaning)
- old
- rotten
- stale
More examples
- The bakery smelled of fresh bread when we walked past it.
Where the word comes from
From Old English 'fersc', meaning not salty, of water.
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