fresh vs old/stale
fresh
Definitions
adjective
- not containing or composed of salt water
- original and of a kind not seen before
- not soured or preserved
- not canned or otherwise preserved
- having recently calved and therefore able to give milk
adverb
- very recently
Examples
It's good for you to suck in fresh shore air.
Saturday morning came, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.
Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs.