fresh
/fɹɛʃ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.83 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
(of plant material) Still green and not dried.
adj
Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
adj
In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
Example Sentences
- "He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer."
- "I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing."
- "With his recent divorce still fresh in his mind, he was unable to concentrate on his work."
- "Where will you find a purer and more suggestive bit of criticism given in a fresher and more implicatory style than the following?"
- "Ross Douthat's gotten a lot of pushback for using his soapbox to complain that liberal Christianity lacks "a religious reason for its own existence." And with good reason—it'd be nice if the national paper of record's faithiest columnist could at least spin a fresher argument against us mainliners."
- "After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat."
Etymology
From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). The verb is from Middle English freshen (“to freshen”), from the adjective. Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk frisk (“fresh”), Swedish frisk (“well, fresh”), Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”). Doublet of fresco and frisk. Slang sense possibly shortened form of “fresh out the pack”, 1980s routine by Grand Wizzard Theodore.