adj.
- not previously known or used; new or different.
- (of food) recently made or obtained; not tinned, frozen, or otherwise preserved.
- full of energy and vigour.
▸(of a colour or a person's complexion) bright or healthy in appearance.
- (of water) not salty.
- (of the wind) cool and fairly strong.
▸pleasantly clean, invigorating, and cool:
fresh air.
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(fresh from/out of)
newly come from; having just had (a particular experience):
we were fresh out of art school.
- attractively youthful and inexperienced.
- informal presumptuous or impudent, especially sexually.
adv.
newly; recently.
Phrase
- be fresh out of
informal have just run out of.
Derivative
- freshly adv.
- freshness n.
Etymology
OE fersc ‘not salt, fit for drinking’, superseded in ME by forms from OFr. freis, fresche; both ult. of Gmc origin.