1. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
2. At or toward an end or late period or stage of development; SYN. later.
3. Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time; SYN. recent.
4. Having died recently
5. (Linguistics) Of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages
Modern · New · advanced · after-hours · belated · dead · former · later · latish · past · posthumous · previous · recent · ripe · tardive · tardy · unpunctual
(Homonym: gnu, knew, nu).
1. Having no previous example or precedent or parallel; SYN. unexampled.
2. (Often followed by 'to') Unfamiliar; SYN. new to.
3. Not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered.
4. Unaffected by use or exposure.
5. Other than the former one; different.
New · bran-new · brand-new · current · early · fresh · hot · inexperienced · inexperient · late · modern · new-sprung · newborn · newfangled · newfound · novel · original · other · parvenu · parvenue · radical · raw · recent · red-hot · refreshing · revolutionary · rising · spic-and-span · spick-and-span · sunrise · unaccustomed · unexampled · unprecedented · untested · untried · unused · unweathered · virgin · young
ETYM Latin recens, -entis: cf. French récent.
1. Being new in a time not long past.
2. Near to or not long before the present.