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单词 fresh
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freshadjective

uk/freʃ/us/freʃ/

fresh adjective (NEW)

B1 [ before noun ] new or different:

The original orders were cancelled and I was given fresh instructions.
Fresh evidence has emerged that casts doubts on the men's conviction.
We need to take a fresh look at the problem.
Your coffee is cold - let me make you a fresh cup.
There has been fresh fighting between police and demonstrators.
They decided to move abroad and make a fresh start.

[ before noun ] approving new and therefore interesting or exciting:

His book offers some fresh insights into the events leading up to the war.
We have tried to come up with a fresh new approach.

More examples

  • 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:

There was a fresh fall of snow during the night.
There's nothing better than fresh bread, straight from the oven.
The house, with its fresh coat of paint, looked beautiful in the sunshine.
She's fresh out of college and very bright.
The events of last year are still fresh in people's minds (= people can remember them easily).
be fresh out mainly US

If you are fresh out of something, you have just finished or sold all of it, so that there is no more left.

More examples

  • 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  • Fresh discoveries in the scientific world have left his theories looking out of date.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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Something, anything, nothing, and everything

fresh adjective (NATURAL)

A2 (of food or flowers) in a natural condition rather than artificially preserved by a process such as freezing:

fresh fruit and vegetables
fresh fish/meat
fresh coffee

More examples

  • 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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Natural and artificial

fresh adjective (AIR)

B1 (of air) clean and cool; found outside rather than in a room:

I opened the window to let some fresh air in.
fresh mountain air
I'm just going out for a breath of fresh air.

Fresh weather is cool, sometimes with wind:

It was a lovely, fresh spring morning.
There's a fresh breeze today.

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Cool

  • bracing
  • cool
  • cool (sb/sth) down/off
  • coolness
  • crisp
  • refresh
  • refreshing
  • temperate

fresh adjective (CLEAN)

B1 clean and pleasant:

I felt wonderfully clean and fresh after my shower.
I use a mouthwash to keep my breath fresh.
This wine has a light, fresh taste.

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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:

I'll deal with this problem in the morning when I'm fresh.
Try and get some sleep on the plane, then you'll arrive feeling fresh.

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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:

She has a lovely fresh (= clear and smooth) complexion.

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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:

Trout are fresh water fish (= live in water that is not salty).
These plants are found in fresh water lakes and rivers (= those containing water that is 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:

Don't you get fresh with me, young woman!
He started getting fresh (= behaving in a sexual way) in the cinema, so she slapped his face.

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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:

You're looking fresh!
fresh shoes
freshness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈfreʃ.nəs/us/ˈfreʃ.nəs/

Idiom(s)

be as fresh as a daisy

fresh-prefix

uk/freʃ-/us/freʃ-/

recently done:

fresh-baked bread
fresh-cut flowers

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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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freshadjective

us/freʃ/

fresh adjective (RECENTLY GROWN/COOKED)

[ -er/-est only ] (of food or flowers) recently picked, made, or cooked:

fresh fruit/vegetables
fresh-baked bread
Elise is in the garden cutting some fresh flowers for the table.
There’s a fresh pot of coffee on the stove.

[ -er/-est only ] Fresh food is also food in a natural condition rather than artificially preserved by a process such as freezing.

fresh adjective (RECENT)

[ -er/-est only ] recently made or done, and not yet changed by time:

The events of last year are still fresh in people’s minds.

fresh adjective (DIFFERENT)

different or additional; replacing what exists:

He’s got a fresh way of looking at old material.

fresh adjective (COOL)

[ -er/-est only ] (of air) clean and cool, in a way thought typical of air away from cities and outside buildings:

How can we keep the kids indoors when they want to play in the fresh air?

fresh adjective (CLEAN)

[ -er/-est only ] clean and pleasant:

fresh bed linens
the fresh smell of pine trees

fresh adjective (NOT SALTY)

[ not gradable ] (of water) from rivers and lakes and therefore not salty:

Rainfall is the sole source of the island’s fresh water.

fresh adjective (NOT TIRED)

[ -er/-est only ] energetic and enthusiastic; not tired:

I awoke feeling fresh and ready to go.

fresh adjective (TOO CONFIDENT)

[ -er/-est only ] being too confident and showing a lack of respect:

Don’t get fresh with me, young woman!

Idiom(s)

fresh out of something
fresh out of somewhere
fresh start
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