all-new

adjective

: entirely new : new in all respects

an all-new design

This is an all-new business in which platoons of salespeople phone up complete strangers, more or less at random, generally at suppertime, and doggedly read to them a prepared script promising a free set of steak knives or AM-FM radio if they buy a certain product or service.

—Bill Bryson, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, 1999

… models like the Cobalt, an all-new Chevy that replaces the Cavalier.

—Daren Fonda, Time, 17 Jan. 2005

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

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