recently

1. In the recent pastExamples: "My recently published book about the life stories of recently-arrived immigrants."; "The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise."Synonyms: newly, lately, freshlyAntonyms: long ago, long since

2. In the recent pastExamples: "I haven't been sleeping well recently."; "Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion.""Synonyms: newly, lately, freshlyAntonyms: long ago, long since