Recent as a noun: - 1
recent as an adjective: - 1
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recent
noun
1 Recent
adjective
1 recent
2 recent
Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time:
— His recent trip to Africa.
— In recent months.
— A recent issue of the journal.
synonym: late.
Roget 122:
past,
gone,
gone by,
over,
passed away,
bygone,
foregone;
elapsed,
lapsed,
preterlapsed†,
expired,
no more,
run out,
blown over,
has-been,
that has been,
extinct,
antediluvian,
antebellum,
never to return,
gone with the wind,
exploded,
forgotten,
irrecoverable;
obsolete
etc.
(old)
124.
former,
pristine,
quondam,
ci-devant [Fr.],
late;
ancestral.
foregoing;
last,
latter;
recent,
over night;
preterperfect†,
preterpluperfect†.
looking back
etc.
v.;
retrospective,
retroactive;
archaeological
etc.
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Roget 123:
new,
novel,
recent,
fresh,
green;
young
etc.
127;
evergreen;
raw,
immature,
unsettled,
yeasty;
virgin;
untried,
unhandseled†,
untrodden,
untrod,
unbeaten;
fire-new,
span-new.
late,
modern,
neoteric,
hypermodern,
nouveau;
new-born,
nascent,
neonatal [Med.],
new-fashioned,
new-fangled,
new-fledged;
of yesterday;
just out,
brand-new,
up to date,
up to the minute,
with it,
fashionable,
in fashion;
in,
hip [Coll.];
vernal,
renovated,
sempervirent†,
sempervirid†.
fresh as a rose,
fresh as a daisy,
fresh as paint;
spick and span.
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Roget 124:
old,
ancient,
antique;
of long standing,
time-honored,
venerable;
elder,
eldest;
firstborn.
prime;
primitive,
primeval,
primigenous†;
paleolontological,
paleontologic,
paleoanthropological,
paleoanthropic†,
paleolithic,
primordial,
primordinate†;
aboriginal
etc.
(beginning)
66;
diluvian†,
antediluvian;
protohistoric†;
prehistoric;
antebellum,
colonial,
precolumbian;
patriarchal,
preadamite†;
paleocrystic†;
fossil,
paleozoolical,
paleozoic,
preglacial†,
antemundane†;
archaic,
classic,
medieval,
Pre-Raphaelite,
ancestral,
black-letter.
immemorial,
traditional,
prescriptive,
customary,
whereof the memory of man runneth not to the whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary;
inveterate,
rooted.
antiquated,
of other times,
rococo,
of the old school,
after-age,
obsolete;
out of date,
out of fashion,
out of it;
stale,
old-fashioned,
behind the age;
old-world;
exploded;
gone out,
gone by;
passe,
run out;
senile
etc.
128;
time worn;
crumbling
etc.
(deteriorated)
659;
secondhand.
old as the hills,
old as Methuselah,
old as Adam†,
old as history.
[geological eras (list, starting at given number of years bp)]
Archeozoic
[5,000,000,000],
Proterozoic
[1,500,000,000],
Paleozoic
[600,000,000],
Mesozoic
[220,000,000],
Cenozoic
[70,000,000].
[geological periods]
Precambrian,
Cambrian
[600,000,000],
Ordovician
[500,000,000],
Silurian
[440,000,000],
Devonian
[400,000,000],
Mississippian
[350,000,000],
Pennsylvanian
[300,000,000],
Permian
[270,000,000],
Triassic
[220,000,000],
Jurassic
[180,000,000],
Cretaceous
[135,000,000],
Tertiary
[70,000,000],
Paleogene
[70,000,000],
Neocene
[25,0000,000],
Quaternary
[1,000,000].
[geological epochs (list, starting at 70,000,000 years bp)]
Paleocene,
Eocene,
Oligocene,
Miocene,
Pliocene,
Pleistocene,
Recent.
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