freshest
- 1Superlative of fresh.
The chef insists on buying the freshest fish available each morning.
Of all the flowers in the shop, those roses looked the freshest.
Note
The usual way to mark the top degree of a one-syllable adjective is to add -est. Most fresh sounds stiff by comparison. It usually comes after the, as in the freshest bread, and it reaches past food to every gradable sense of the base word: the freshest breeze of the evening, or the freshest legs on the team late in a long match.
By the final lap she had the freshest legs in the field.
The freshest breeze of the day came off the lake at dusk.
freshest is a form of fresh
fresh, adjective: Not dried, frozen, or spoiled; still in good, edible condition. Full entry
- Spelling
- fresh → freshest: add -est
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