Dictionary Definition
fresh adj
1 not stale or old; "fresh bread"; "a fresh
scent" [ant: stale]
2 (of a cycle) beginning or occurring again; "a
fresh start"; "fresh ideas"
3 imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing
mountain air" [syn: bracing, brisk, energizing, energising, refreshing, refreshful, tonic]
4 of a kind not seen before; "the computer
produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem" [syn:
new, novel]
5 not canned or otherwise preserved; "fresh
vegetables" [ant: preserved]
6 not containing or composed of salt water;
"fresh water" [ant: salt]
7 having recently calved and therefore able to
give milk; "the cow is fresh"
9 not soured or preserved; "sweet milk" [syn:
sweet, unfermented]
10 free from impurities; "clean water"; "fresh
air" [syn: clean]
11 not artificial; "fresh cut flowers" [syn:
fresh(a)]
12 not yet used or soiled; "a fresh shirt"; "a
fresh sheet of paper"; "an unused envelope" [syn: unused]
13 improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh
with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an
impudent boy given to insulting strangers" [syn: impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy] adv : very recently; "they
are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged
hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor";
"we are fresh out of tomatoes" [syn: recently, newly, freshly, new]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Via Middle English and Old French from Late Latin *friscusPronunciation
- /fɹɛʃ/
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- Rhymes: -ɛʃ
Adjective
- New or clean.
- He put on a fresh set of clothes.
- Of produce, not from
storage.
- I had a fresh salad made from vegetables straight out of the garden.
- Refreshing or cool.
- What a nice fresh breeze.
- Without salt (especially of water).
- The islanders drank from a fresh water spring.
- Rude,
cheeky, or inappropriate.
- No one liked his fresh comments.
- Very clean, and trendy looking garments, clothes, shoes,
accessories.
- Those clothes are fresh. Those shoes are fresh.
- Rested and ready to engage with the enemy immediately.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
New or clean (1)
Of produce, not from storage (2)
Refreshing or cool (3)
Without salt (4)
Rude or inappropriate (5)
- Catalan: fresc , fresca (less used)
- Dutch: onbeschoft
- Finnish: röyhkeä
- Hebrew: ,
- Italian: sfacciato , sfiacciata
- Russian: грубый (grúbyj), нахальный (nakhál’nyj)
- Spanish: grosero
Extensive Definition
Fresh or FRESH may refer to:
Food and drink
- Fresh Choice, a buffet-style restaurant chain
- Fresh Del Monte Produce, a major producer and distributor of fruit and other agricultural products
- Fresh Market, a gourmet supermarket chain based in North Carolina
- Post harvest freshness
- Fresh water, water with less than 0.5 parts per thousand dissolved salts
Music
- Fresh (album), an album disambiguation page
- Fresh Azimiz, a single featured on Bow Wow's 2005 album Wanted
- Fresh Records, the name of two defunct independent record labels
- Fresh I.E., a Christian rap artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Fresh Kid Ice, a founding member of controversial rap group 2 Live Crew
- Fresh (musician), the stage name of UK-based drum and bass artist Dan Stein
Organizations
Political
- Fresh Democratic Party, a liberal political party in Nigeria
- Fresh Start, a grouping within the British Conservative Party opposed to the Maastricht Treaty
- FRESH, UNESCO a world-wide school health project
Other
- Fresh Air airline, an airline in Nigeria
- Fresh Air Fund, a charity meant to help inner city children have fun in less urban environments
- Fresh Ministries, a non-profit charity based in Jacksonville, Florida
- Fresh Talents Music Project, a new education project based in Rijeka, Croatia
- Fresh Writers Books, a book publishing company based in Uniontown, Ohio
Places/Geographical
New York
- Fresh Kills, a stream and freshwater estuary in the New York City borough of Staten Island
- Fresh Kills Landfill, on the New York City borough of Staten Island
- Fresh Meadows, Queens, a neighborhood in northeastern portion of the borough of Queens in New York City
- Fresh Pond Bus Depot, on Fresh Pond Road near 67th Avenue in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens, New York City
- Fresh Pond Road (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line), a station on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line of the New York City Subway
Elsewhere
- Fresh Creek, a district of the Bahamas before 1996
- Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts, a reservoir and park
- Fresh River, a historic name for the Connecticut River
- Fresh River (New Hampshire)
- Freshwater ecoregion, represents the freshwater habitats of a particular geographic area, including rivers, streams, lakes, and wetlands
Radio, TV and film
Stations
- Fresh Air (Edinburgh), the alternative music student radio station serving Edinburgh, Scotland
- Fresh 105 FM, a fictional radio station featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories soundtrack.
- Fresh FM, an Adelaide radio station.
- Fresh FM, a radio statio in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.
- Fresh FM Nelson, a not-for-profit community access radio station inNew Zealand
- Fresh Radio, an independent local radio station broadcasting to the Yorkshire Dales in Northern England
- WWFS, known as Fresh 102.7, New York City FM station
- WCFS, known as Fresh 105.9, Chicago FM station
Content
- Fresh 40, a networked music singles chart broadcast on a number of UK commercial radio stations
- Fresh Air, a radio show broadcast on National Public Radio
- Fresh (TV series), a cooking show filmed in Australia
- Fresh Baked Videogames, a comedy show about video games
- Fresh Fields, a British situation comedy
- Fresh (film), a 1994 film
- Fresh Gear, a television program on ZDTV
- Fresh Hare, a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies cartoon
- Fresh Horses, a 1988 drama film
- Fresh with Anna Olson, a Canadian cooking show presenter by Anna Olson
Miscellaneous
- Fresh Effy/Big Beaw, The Freshest Big Beaw ever!
- Fresh Cut Flowers and Fresh Cut Greens Promotion and Information Act
- Fresh gas flow, the mixture of medical gases and volatile anaesthetic agents which is produced by an anaesthetic machine
- Fresh Kiss, a line of pocket-sized breath sensors from Japanese company Tanita
- Fresh off the boat, a slang phrase
- Fresh Prince, a disambiguation page
- Fresh Talent - Working in Scotland Scheme, a Scottish immigration programme
- Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc, a collection of scholarly essays on Joan of Arc
- Fresh (IDE), a IDE for flat assembler languages.
fresh in Russian: Fresh
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Niagara, a novice at, a stranger
to, accessory,
active, actual, additional, adolescent
stream, aeolian,
airish, airy, alert, alive, alternative, ancillary, another, arroyo, artless, as is, authentic, auxiliary, avant-garde,
beck, being, biggety, blasty, bleached, blooming, blowy, bluff, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bold, boreal, bourn, bracing, braided stream,
branch, brand-new,
brash, brassy, brazen, breezy, bright, bright-eyed and
bushy-tailed, brisk,
brook, brooklet, burn, callow, cataract, channel, cheeky, cheering, chill, chilly, chutzpadik, clean, cleanly, clear, cocky, collateral, contemporaneous,
contemporary,
contemptuous,
contributory,
cool, coolish, cordial, creative, creek, crick, crisp, crispy, crude, crusty, current, dainty, deluge, derisive, dewy, different, dirt-free, disrespectful, drafty, eidetic, else, enduring, energetic, energizing, ever-new,
evergreen, exhilarating, existent, existing, extant, extra, facy, fair, farther, fastidious, favonian, firsthand, flawy, fledgling, flip, flippant, flood, flourishing, flowing stream,
flush, flushed, fluviation, forward, fresh as April,
freshet, further, gally, gill, gleaming, glistening, glowing, gratuitous, green, green as grass, gusty, harmless, healthy, held back, held in
reserve, held out, ignorant, imaginative, immaculate, immanent, immature, immediate, impertinent, impudent, in abeyance, in hand,
inexperienced,
insolent, instant, intact, invigorated, invigorating, inviolate, keen, kept in remembrance, kill, kosher, lasting, latest, lazy stream, lively, maiden, maidenly, malapert, meandering stream,
midchannel, midstream, millstream, mint, moderate, modern, modernistic, more, most recent, moving road,
naive, natural, navigable river,
neoteric, nervy, nestling, new, new to, new-fashioned, newfangled, nonpolluted, novel, of cleanly habits, original, other, pert, pink, plus, pour, present, present-age,
present-day, present-time, presumptuous, pristine, puffy, pure, put aside, put by, race, racing stream, raw, recalled, recent, recollected, refreshed, refreshful, refreshing, regaling, remembered, renewed, reserve, retained, revolutionary, ritually
pure, river, rivulet, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rousing, ruddy, rude, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, running, sassy, saucy, saved, scatheless, sempervirent, shiny, sike, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass,
smut-free, smutless,
spare, sparkling, spate, spill stream, spotless, spry, squally, stainless, stimulating, stored, stream, stream action, streamlet, striking, strong, subterranean river,
supernumerary,
supplemental,
supplementary,
surplus, suspended, sweet, tahar, temperate, that be, that is,
to spare, tonic, topical, torrent, tubbed, ulterior, unaccustomed to,
unacquainted with, unadulterated, unapplied, unbeaten, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, unbroken, unbruised, uncalled-for,
unconsumed, unconventional, unconversant, unconversant
with, uncouth, undamaged, undefaced, undefiled, undeformed, undemolished, underived, undestroyed, undeveloped, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended, unexperienced, unfaded, unfamiliar with,
unfledged, unforgotten, unhandled, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninitiated in,
uninjured, unique, unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unmatured, unmuddied, unorthodox, unpolluted, unpracticed, unpracticed in,
unripe, unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unseasoned, unshattered, unskilled in,
unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unsophisticated,
unspent, unspoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untapped, untarnished, untested, untorn, untouched, untrained, untried, untrodden, unused, unused to, unusual, unutilized, unversed, unversed in, unwithered, unworn, up-to-date,
up-to-the-minute, vernal,
vigorous, virgin, virginal, vital, vivid, wadi, waived, watercourse, waterflood, waterway, well, well-scrubbed, well-washed,
white, whitened, wholesome, windy, wise-ass, young, youthful, zestful, zesty