freshly

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɛʃli/

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Adverb

freshly (comparative more freshly, superlative most freshly)

1. Recently, newly.

   The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant.

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     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.

2. (uncommon) In a rude or impertinent manner.

Synonyms

• (recently): lately; see also Thesaurus:recently
• (rude manner): impolitely, rudely, uncivilly, unmannerly

Translations

recently

• Catalan: recentment (ca), de fresc
• French: fraîchement (fr)
• Galician: recentemente (gl)
• Norman: fraîchement

rude manner

• Catalan: frescament (ca)
• French: froidement (fr)