fresh

fresh [ freʃ ] adjective ***

▸ 1 food: recently prepared

▸ 2 flowers: recently picked

▸ 3 recently done/made etc.

▸ 4 clearly new and different

▸ 5 smelling/tasting natural

▸ 6 clean/bright/attractive

▸ 7 water: with no salt

▸ 8 with feeling of energy

▸ 9 behaving rudely

▸ 10 cold and windy

▸ 11 recently arrived

▸ + PHRASES

1. ) fresh food has been recently picked, caught, or prepared:

Fresh salmon is much nicer than frozen.

You can use fresh or tinned tomatoes for this recipe.

fresh from/out of: Our vegetables are fresh from the garden.

a ) still good to eat because of being prepared or produced recently:

Cooked meat will keep fresh for several days in the fridge.

─ opposite STALE

2. ) fresh flowers have been recently PICKED (=taken from the place they were growing in)

3. ) recently done, made, or experienced:

fresh footprints in the snow

The details are still fresh in my mind.

4. ) usually before noun clearly new and different:

We need a completely fresh approach to the problem.

The program takes a fresh look at this difficult issue.

a ) replacing or adding to a previous thing or amount:

The police made a fresh appeal for witnesses.

I've put fresh towels in your room.

5. ) if something smells or tastes fresh, it smells or tastes pleasant and clean:

The air smelled clean and fresh after the smoky little hut.

I like drinks with a fresh lemony flavor.

6. ) clean, bright, and attractive in appearance:

His cotton shirt looked crisp and fresh.

her lovely fresh complexion

a ) used about colors:

The walls were painted in a lovely fresh blue.

7. ) fresh water is water in lakes and rivers that does not contain any salt

8. ) if you feel fresh, you have a lot of energy: REFRESHED

9. ) INFORMAL behaving in a way that is rude or does not show respect to someone: CHEEKY, FAMILIAR

a ) behaving in a way that is slightly rude but shows that you are sexually attracted to someone

10. ) if the weather is fresh, it is fairly cold and the wind is blowing

─ opposite HUMID

11. ) fresh from/out of if someone is fresh from a particular place or situation, they have recently come from there:

He was just a kid, fresh out of law school.

He came to Wimbledon fresh from his victory in the American Open.

as fresh as a daisy

looking or feeling completely fresh

fresh out of something INFORMAL

used for saying that you have just finished all of your supply of a particular thing:

I'm sorry, I'm fresh out of coffee.

a fresh start

a complete change in your way of life or the way you do things, especially after you have previously been unsuccessful

╾ fresh|ness noun uncount