recent

adjective8 collocationsAvg. frequency: 7.6

Emphasizes that something happened a very short time ago.

Recent to a certain degree, especially when compared with other things.

To a significant degree, recent.

Quite recent, but not extremely so.

Informal way of saying fairly or quite recent.

More recent than expected or usual.

Recent in comparison to something else.

Indicates that something happened or began only a short time ago.