recently

Adverb

recently (comparative more recently, superlative most recently)

1. a short while ago.
   • My recently published book about the life stories of recently-arrived immigrants.
   • The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   newly, lately, freshly

   Antonyms:

   long ago, long since

2. in recent times.
   • I haven't been sleeping well recently.
   • Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30

   Synonyms:

   newly, lately, freshly

   Antonyms:

   long ago, long since