| Recently (adv.) Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received. Thesaurus Entries aforetime, afresh, anew, before, before now, beforetime, earlier, erenow, erewhile, erst, formerly, heretofore, historically, hitherto, in the past, in times past, just now, lately, latterly, new, newly, not long ago, now, of late, only yesterday, prehistorically, previously, priorly, right now, the other day, then, whilom, yesterday |