freshly

«freshly» in Mova's school dictionary: Very recently; only just: «freshly baked bread», «freshly… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adverb (freshly)

meaning for a pupil

Very recently; only just: «freshly baked bread», «freshly cut grass». tree →

sense in the lessons

Used almost always before a past participle to tell the reader something was done a moment ago, so it is new, clean or at its best: freshly made, freshly washed, freshly painted, freshly squeezed. In safety: «freshly painted» means wet paint — don't touch.

examples

• The kitchen smelled of freshly baked bread. tree →
• I love the smell of freshly cut grass. tree →
• She drank a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. tree →
• Careful, the bench is freshly painted! tree →
• My freshly washed socks are on the line. tree →
• We had freshly picked strawberries from the farm. tree →
• He had not gone many paces into the shrubbery when before him lay a freshly wounded deer! tree →

note

Adverb from «fresh» + «-ly». Usually comes right before a past participle (baked, cut, made). Do not use «freshly» for people feeling fresh: say «I feel fresh», not «I feel freshly».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «freshly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.