recent

recent is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.
2. adjective. Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.
3. noun. approximately the last 10,000 years

   Synonyms: holocene

4. adjective. new

   "recent graduates"

   "a recent addition to the house"

5. adjective. of the immediate past or just previous to the present time

   "a late development"

   "their late quarrel"

   Synonyms: late

Synonyms

holocene, late

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in recent:

center, centre, tenrec

Common word forms

recenter, recently, recentest, recentness

Words from these letters

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