| Recent 1. (a.) 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. (a.) of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells. Thesaurus Entries ancient, brand-new, current, early, erstwhile, fore, former, fresh, immemorial, just out, late, later, latest, latter, modern, modernistic, neoteric, new, new-fashioned, newfangled, newly come, novel, of yesterday, old, olden, once, onetime, past, prehistoric, previous, primeval, primitive, prior, quondam, sometime, then |