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)