■ adjective
1》 not previously known or used; new or different.
2》 (of food) recently made or obtained; not tinned, frozen, or otherwise preserved.
3》 full of energy and vigour.
↘(of a colour or a person's complexion) bright or healthy in appearance.
4》 (of water) not salty.
5》 (of the wind) cool and fairly strong.
↘pleasantly clean, invigorating, and cool: ~ air.
6》 ( ~ from/out of ) newly come from; having just had (a particular experience): we were ~ out of art school.
7》 attractively youthful and inexperienced.
8》 informal presumptuous or impudent, especially sexually.
■ adverb newly; recently.
Phrases
be ~ out of informal have just run out of.
Derivatives
~ly adverb
~ness noun
Origin
OE fersc 'not salt, fit for drinking', superseded in ME by forms from OFr. freis , fresche ; both ult. of Gmc origin.