freshadjective
uk/freʃ/us/freʃ/fresh adjective (NEW)
B1 [ before noun ] new or different:
[ before noun ] approving new and therefore interesting or exciting:
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- Add some fresh parsley, finely chopped.
- She loved the creamy consistency of fresh paint.
- She succeeded in conflating the three plays to produce a fresh new work.
- I went outside to get some fresh air.
- He'd piped fresh cream around the edge of the cake.
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New
- a breath of fresh air idiom
- afresh
- brand new
- brave new
- break the mould idiom
- breath
- injection
- innovation
- innovative
- latest
- latter-day
- mint
- neo-
- novel
- novelty
- original
- originality
- pristine
- revolutionary
- up-to-the-minute idiom
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fresh adjective (RECENT)
B2 recently made, done, arrived, etc., and especially not yet changed by time:
If you are fresh out of something, you have just finished or sold all of it, so that there is no more left.
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- The snow was fresh and powdery.
- The cook brought in a fresh batch of homemade cakes.
- This type of disinfectant doesn't sting, even if you put it on a fresh cut.
- This bread isn't very fresh - let's try at the other shop.
- Fresh discoveries in the scientific world have left his theories looking out of date.
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New
- a breath of fresh air idiom
- afresh
- brand new
- brave new
- break the mould idiom
- breath
- injection
- innovation
- innovative
- latest
- latter-day
- mint
- neo-
- novel
- novelty
- original
- originality
- pristine
- revolutionary
- up-to-the-minute idiom
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fresh adjective (NATURAL)
A2 (of food or flowers) in a natural condition rather than artificially preserved by a process such as freezing:
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- Add some fresh parsley, finely chopped.
- The supermarket chain announced that it was cutting the cost of all its fresh and frozen meat.
- He'd piped fresh cream around the edge of the cake.
- Make sure you eat plenty of good fresh food.
- The salmon was accompanied by a fresh green salad.
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Preserving & storing food
- bin
- bread basket
- bread bin
- brine
- caddy
- defrost
- dried
- foil
- food technology
- freeze
- freeze-dry
- glacé
- preserve
- processed
- reconstitute
- refrigerate
- saltpetre
- souse
- Tupperware
- vacuum-packed
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fresh adjective (AIR)
B1 (of air) clean and cool; found outside rather than in a room:
Fresh weather is cool, sometimes with wind:
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Cool
- bracing
- cool
- cool (sb/sth) down/off
- coolness
- crisp
- refresh
- refreshing
- temperate
fresh adjective (CLEAN)
B1 clean and pleasant:
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Clean & tidy
- (as) clean as a (new) pin idiom
- a place for everything and everything in its place idiom
- apple pie
- aseptic
- be in apple-pie order idiom
- manicured
- neat
- neatly
- neatness
- ordered
- orderly
- shipshape
- span
- spick
- spotless
- squeaky-clean
- stainless
- sterile
- tidy
- trim
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fresh adjective (NOT TIRED)
C1 [ after verb ] energetic, enthusiastic, and not tired:
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Energetic and lively
- a spring in your step idiom
- alive
- barnstorming
- be alive and well/kicking idiom
- be as fresh as a daisy idiom
- bounce
- frisky
- frolicsome
- fury
- go-getter
- indefatigable
- lively
- maniac
- playful
- refreshing
- sprightly
- spry
- supercharged
- tear into sth
- throw yourself into sth
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fresh adjective (SKIN)
C2 (of a face) natural, healthy, and young looking:
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The skin, & skin colour
- beauty spot
- blanch
- coloring
- coloured
- cutaneous
- dermatome
- dermis
- drain
- follicle
- goosebumps
- half-caste
- ink
- jaundiced
- pale
- pallid
- sallow
- skin graft
- swarthy
- waxen
- wrinkled
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fresh adjective (NOT SALTY)
C2 [ before noun ] (of water) not salty:
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Water in general
- aqua
- aqueous
- bathwater
- bathymetry
- brackish
- briny
- dishwater
- distilled water
- drinking water
- evapotranspiration
- grey water
- ground water
- heavy water
- hydro-
- hydrology
- ice water
- mineral water
- pool
- running water
- water supply
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fresh adjective (TOO CONFIDENT)
informal being too confident and showing no respect, or showing by your actions or words that you want to have sex with someone:
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Confidence & self-assurance
- amour propre
- aplomb
- assertive
- assertiveness training
- assured
- brass
- breezy
- bullish
- dogmatic
- dogmatism
- dogmatist
- forwardness
- hold your head (up) high idiom
- positively
- rakish
- safe
- sassy
- self-assertive
- self-assured
- self-belief
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fresh adjective (GOOD)
US slang good and attractive or stylish: