freshly
/ˈfɹɛʃli/
freshly adverb: recently, newly.
Adverb
freshly (comparative more freshly, superlative most freshly)
- Recently, newly.
- 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.1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC
- In a rude or impertinent manner.
- Synonyms:
- impolitely, rudely, uncivilly, unmannerly
freshly meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Gujarati
freshly in Urdu
- تازہ طور پر, تازگی سے
freshly in Bengali
- সদ্য, নতুনভাবে, তাজা অবস্থায়
freshly in Malayalam
- freshly
- പുതുതായി pututāyi
freshly in Gujarati
- તાજગીથી
More languagesFewer languages
- freshly in Odia
- ସତେଜ ଭାବେ
- freshly in Nepali
- ताजा रूपमा
- freshly in Arabic
- قُبَيْلاً qubaylan
Examples of freshly in a sentence
- 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).2015 July 6, “Diagnosis of Morquio Syndrome in Dried Blood Spots Based on a New MRM-MS Assay”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
- He smelt freshly fried kachoris rescued from the wedding buffet.2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 54:
Synonyms of freshly
Forms of freshly
| comparative | more freshly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most freshly |
Origin of freshly
From Middle English freschely, freschliche (also as ferscheli, fersly, ferselich), equivalent to fresh + -ly.
Questions about freshly
- What does freshly mean?
- Freshly means recently, newly.
- What is freshly in Urdu?
- Freshly in Urdu is تازہ طور پر, تازگی سے. See Freshly meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use freshly in a sentence?
- 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).
- What part of speech is freshly?
- Freshly is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce freshly?
- Freshly is pronounced /ˈfɹɛʃli/.
Words near freshly in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: freshly (page history and authors); freshly (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); freshly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പുതുതായി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); freshly (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); freshly (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); freshly (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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