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original
adj
- 1. Relating to an origin or beginning.
2. Existing from the beginning; earliest; first.
- Thesaurus: first, primary, primordial, earliest, initial, introductory, rudimentary, starting, opening, commencing; Antonym: recent, late.
- Thesaurus: novel, new, fresh, unique, unprecedented, unusual, one-of-a-kind, sole, lone, single; Antonym: commonplace.
- Thesaurus: creative, imaginative, innovative, inventive, ingenious, unconventional; Antonym: imitative.
- 1. The first example of something, such as a document, photograph or text, etc, which is copied, reproduced or translated to produce others, but which is not itself copied or derived, etc from something else.
- Thesaurus: model, archetype, standard, master, paradigm; Antonym: copy, imitation, replica.
3. A person or thing that serves as a model in art or literature.
4. An odd or eccentric person.
- Thesaurus: eccentric, nonconformist, maverick, character.
- In the first place, at the beginning.
- In an original way.
