newly

English

Etymology

From Middle English newly, newely, neweliche, from Old English nīewlīċe (“newly”), equivalent to new +‎ -ly. Compare Dutch nieuwelijks, German neulich, Danish nylig, Icelandic nýlega. More at new, -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnuli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːli/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːli
• Hyphenation: new‧ly

Adverb

newly (comparative more newly, superlative most newly)

1. Very recently/lately; in the immediate past.

   She smelled the newly budding flowers.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”

Synonyms

• freshly, recently; see also Thesaurus:recently

Derived terms

• newly-formed
• newlywed

 

Translations

Very recently

Bulgarian: наскоро (bg) (naskoro), неотдавна (bg) (neotdavna) Catalan: novament (ca) Esperanto: nove (eo) Faroese: nýliga Finnish: vasta (fi), vastikään (fi) French: nouvellement (fr), récemment (fr) German: neu (de) Latin: nuper (la) Malayalam: പുതുതായി (pututāyi) Persian: نو (fa) (now) Portuguese: recém- Russian: вновь (ru) (vnovʹ), за́ново (ru) (zánovo), по-но́вому (ru) (po-nóvomu), неда́вно (ru) (nedávno) (recently) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: nowo Spanish: nuevamente (es) Swedish: nyligen (sv), ny- (sv) Telugu: కొత్తగా (te) (kottagā)