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Lacking originality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1758, William Hawkins, Tracts in Divinity, Oxford, Volume 2, Letter 12 [on Pope’ translations of Homer], pp. 418-419, Redundancies are as unoriginal as Insipidities, and the Spirit of an Author may be as much overwhelmed in Exuberance on the one Hand, as it evaporates in Frigidity on the other.
- 2008, André Brink, Other Lives, Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, “Mirror,” Chapter 8, p. 185, “Stories come from other stories.” “Then there is no originality anywhere.” “Does it matter? Perhaps our very idea of originality is overrated. And unoriginal.”
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Not being the first or earliest version of something, not original.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Examples
- 1894, Joseph Jacobs (editor), More Celtic Fairy Tales, London: David Nutt, Notes and References, “The Leeching of Kayn’s Leg,” p. 232, [This tale] occurs in an MS. of the fifteenth century in an obviously unoriginal form which shows that the story-teller did not appreciate the significance of many features in the folk-tale he was retelling [...]
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Without an origin or source.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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A person or work that does not exhibit originality.
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not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual- Gwethalyn Graham
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations
- his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern
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Antonyms: original
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English original English unoriginal From un- + original.
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Spanish:
poco original
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Spanish:
nada original
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Spanish:
sin originalidad
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