Newsiest

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. the greatest amount of newsworthiness or relevance in content while also reflecting the highest level of freshness and current events in information sharing
2. characterized by the most significant degree of up-to-date information while also being the richest in newsworthy details and fresh perspectives
3. Containing the largest amount of current and important news material compared to others

Etymology: "Newsiest" is the superlative of "newsy," which means full of news or, in American usage, chatty and gossipy. The base word is "news" with the suffix "-y," a common English ending meaning "full of" or "having the quality of." Newsy is built directly on "news" and so the superlative adds "-iest," the regular ending for the most of a quality. The word "news" itself is an English formation, not a Latin or French borrowing as one might guess. Its roots run back to the Proto-Indo-European root *newo- ("new"), which passed into Germanic as a plural-looking noun meaning fresh tidings, the sense of "new things" that reached a listener. Used as a superlative, "newsiest" points to whichever source, broadcast, or person has the most fresh information at a given moment, with the sense of being full of recent events rather than general chat.

Synonyms: most current, most relevant

Antonyms: least current