Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

freshly

/ˈfɹɛʃli/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.61 in modern English

Syllables: fresh-ly
IPA: /ˈfɹɛʃli/

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Recently, newly.

adv

In a rude or impertinent manner.

Example Sentences

"The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant."
"Florence, hardly glancing round her, lest she should remind him freshly of their last parting […] led him out to a coach that was waiting at the door, and carried him away."
"Filter cards were prepared from freshly collected blood (EDTA blood, 2–6 h old) and from hemolyzed blood (EDTA blood, 2–4 days stored at -20°C)."
"He smelt freshly fried kachoris rescued from the wedding buffet."

Etymology

From Middle English freschely, freschliche (also as ferscheli, fersly, ferselich), equivalent to fresh + -ly.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: freschely

Inflected Forms

more freshly (comparative) most freshly (superlative)

Synonyms

lately impolitely rudely uncivilly unmannerly newly fresh new

Rhymes With

especially

Questions

How do you pronounce freshly?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈfɹɛʃli/.
What does freshly mean?: Recently, newly.
Where does freshly come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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