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UNORIGINAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual
Example:
his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern
Classified under:
Similar:
banal; commonplace; hackneyed; old-hat; shopworn; stock; threadbare; timeworn; tired; trite; well-worn (repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse)
bromidic; corny; platitudinal; platitudinous (dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality)
cliched; ready-made (repeated regularly without thought or originality)
cold; dusty; moth-eaten; stale (lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new)
slavish (blindly imitative)
Also:
conventional (following accepted customs and proprieties)
uncreative (not creative)
stale (lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age)
secondary (being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate)
Attribute:
originality (the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else))
Antonym:
original (being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of)
Derivation:
unoriginality (the quality of being unoriginal)
unoriginality (uncreativeness due to a lack of originality)
