freshly
adv. timeadv. very recently. You use this to describe something that has just been made, cleaned, or finished.
adv. very recently or anew. Often used to modify a past participle to indicate that an action has just been completed.
The kitchen smells like freshly baked bread.
She hung the freshly washed sheets on the line to dry in the afternoon sun.
The museum's freshly renovated wing features state-of-the-art lighting designed to protect the delicate pigments of the Renaissance paintings.
From Middle English freschely, freschliche (also as ferscheli, fersly, ferselich), equivalent to fresh + -ly.
Commonly used as a modifier before a past participle (e.g., 'freshly painted', 'freshly squeezed').
The bread is freshly.The bread is fresh.Learners confuse the adverb 'freshly' with the adjective 'fresh'. Use 'freshly' only to modify a verb or another adjective, not as a standalone complement after a linking verb.