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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | recent, fresh |
| Synonyms: | advanced, au courant, brand-new, contemporary, current, cutting-edge, dewy, different, dissimilar, distinct, fashionable, inexperienced, just out, late, latest, modern, modernistic, modish, neoteric, newfangled, novel, now*, original, recent, spick-and-span, state-of-the-art, strange, topical, ultramodern, unaccustomed, uncontaminated, unfamiliar, unique, unknown, unlike, unseasoned, unskilled, unspoiled, untouched, untrained, untried, untrodden, unused, unusual, up-to-date, virgin, youthful |
| Antonyms: | deteriorated, old, old-fashioned, outdated, worn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | new |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | modernized, restored |
| Synonyms: | altered, changed, improved, redesigned, refreshed, regenerated, renewed, revived |
| Antonyms: | old, old-fashioned, out-of-date, outdated, unstylish |
| Main Entry: | additional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extra, supplementary |
| Synonyms: | added, affixed, appended, further, increased, more, new, on the side, option, other, over-and-above, padding, perk, spare, supplementary |
| Antonyms: | necessary |
| Main Entry: | anew |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
| Definition: | fresh; again |
| Synonyms: | afresh, another time, come again, de novo, from scratch, from the beginning, in a different way, in a new way, lately, new, newly, once again, once more, one more time, over, over again, recently |
| Main Entry: | avant-garde |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconventional, forward-looking |
| Synonyms: | beat*, experimental, head*, hip*, innovative, lead, leading-edge, liberal, new, new wave, pioneering, progressive, radical, state-of-the-art, vanguard |
| Antonyms: | conservative, conventional |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beta |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being tested |
| Synonyms: | dubious, experimental, flaky, mostly working, new, pre-release, suspect, testing, unready |
| Main Entry: | blank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear |
| Synonyms: | bare, barren, clean, empty, fresh, new, pale, plain, spotless, uncompleted, unfilled, unmarked, untouched, unused, vacant, vacuous, virgin, virginal, void, white |
| Antonyms: | filled, full, habited, occupied |
| Main Entry: | colonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pioneering, relating to a nonindependent or new territory |
| Synonyms: | crude, dependent, dominion, early American, emigrant, frontier, immigrant, new, outland, pilgrim, pioneer, prerevolutionary, primitive, provincial, puritan, territorial, transplanted, uncultured, unsettled, unsophisticated, wild |
| Antonyms: | modern, new |
| Main Entry: | contemporary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | modern |
| Synonyms: | abreast, au courant, contempo, current, existent, extant, hot off press, in fashion, in vogue, instant, just out, latest, leading-edge, mod, new, newfangled, now, present, present-day, recent, red-hot, state-of-the-art*, today, topical, ultramodern, up*, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, voguish, with it, à la mode |
| Notes: | contemporary can be predicated of persons, conditions, or events; contemporaneous is predicable only of occurrences or events |
| Antonyms: | old, old-fashioned, past, preceding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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