Adjective: recent
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more recent |
| Superlative | most recent |
Sample Sentences
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Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents. [2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2016, page 193:]
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The cause has several hundred recent donors.
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I met three recent graduates at the conference.
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Finding it now means it was produced in more recent times, in astronomical terms. [2020 October 4, Evan Gough, “We Now Have Proof a Supernova Exploded Perilously Close to Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago”, in Science Alert:]
Adjectives inflected like recent
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin recēns (genitive recentis). See: Latin Adjectives '
recēns'.