fresh – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of fresh

Adjective: fresh

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativefresher
Superlativefreshest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.
  • I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.
  • With his recent divorce still fresh in his mind, he was unable to concentrate on his work.
  • Where will you find a purer and more suggestive bit of criticism given in a fresher and more implicatory style than the following? [1854 October, “You have heard of Them”, in D. W. Holly, editor, The United States Review, New York, N.Y.: Lloyd & Brainard […], page 327:]
  • Ross Douthat's gotten a lot of pushback for using his soapbox to complain that liberal Christianity lacks "a religious reason for its own existence." And with good reason—it'd be nice if the national paper of record's faithiest columnist could at least spin a fresher argument against us mainliners. [2012 July 17, Steve Thorngate, “Morice-Brubaker takes on Douthat”, in The Christian Century:]
  • After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.
  • I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.
  • a glass of fresh milk
  • In fact, street food may well be fresher than that served in restaurants and cafes, as it is cooked at the point of sale. It's certainly much cheaper. [2000, Catherine Hanger, Morocco: World Food:]
  • The ravenette smiled. Today was her little sister’s birthday, and what better way to commemorate than eating salad brimmed with the freshest of fruits. Following Tala, Amihan felt her heart sore. Luscious short brown hair, almond-shaped eyes, gleaming smiles, there is no one as extravagant as her beloved, Bagwis. [2020 September 26, Darcy Encarnacion, “When It Falls”, in Scribbles, volume 1, number 1, Manila: De La Salle University Writers’ Guild, page 14:]
  • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…] [1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:]
  • What a nice fresh breeze.
  • The corridor stinks of sweat and cigarette smoke, and I daringly open the window a little. The freshest air floats in, smelling of sappy grasses, the delicate pollens of wild flowers, the resins of the pine forests; hinting at the chill blue scent of distant snows. [2013, Margaret Leroy, The English Girl, →ISBN:]
  • After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.
  • There we made our ſhip faſt with foure ropes, in ſmooth water, and the freſh water ranne downe out of the hill into the ſea, […] [a. 1628, Sir Francis Drake(?), The World Encompassed, Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628), page 49]
  • When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh, and sometimes saltish; […] [1820, William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions, Archibald Constable & Co., page 230:]
  • Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt. [2009, Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing, Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 1557:]
  • Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements. [2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:]
  • a fresh hand on a ship
  • these fresh nymphs [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]
  • a fresh pair of sneakers
  • I've been thinking about the way you walk
  • Baby ooh I like the way you talk
  • Tell you something I really can't hide
  • Heaven must have sent you to be by my side
  • Fresh and lovely fresh like a dream come true
  • I'll give anything to spend the night with you [1984, “Fresh”, in Emergency, performed by Kool & the Gang:]
  • Because my devastating beats I know you will like / You see my beat box is fresh, it'll blow your mind [1988, “Supersonic”, performed by J. J. Fad:]
  • How long did Mr. Crisp stay with you?—He might have stayed two hours; he stayed some time after; he drank ale and got fresh. [1840, Parliamentary Papers, volume 9, page 43:]

Adjectives inflected like fresh

sallow, smooth, slight, sleigh, sordid, somber, shweet, shrill, shrewd, yellow, yaller, hard knock, DRY, Greek, cut short, unquiet, unclean, indiscreet, chipper, straicht, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). The verb is from Middle English freshen (“to freshen”), from the adjective.
2. Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk frisk (“fresh”), Swedish frisk (“well, fresh”), Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”). Doublet of fresco and frisk.
3. Slang sense possibly shortened form of “fresh out the pack”, 1980s routine by Grand Wizzard Theodore. See: Dutch Adjectives 'vers', German Adjectives 'frisch', French Adjectives 'frais', Swedish Adjectives 'frisk'.

Verbs referencing "fresh"

Dutch Adjectives vers, German Adjectives frisch, French Adjectives frais.