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Antonyms for unoriginal

Grammar : Adj
Spell : uh-rij-uh-nl
Phonetic Transcription : əˈrɪdʒ ə nl


Definition of unoriginal

Origin :
  • 1660s, "having no origin, uncreated," from un- (1) "not" + original (adj.). Meaning "derivative, second-hand" is recorded from 1774.
  • adj not original
Example sentences :
  • It is as easy to be unoriginal as it is hard at times to be original.
  • Extract from : « Parkhurst Boys » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • The advertising writer is the most unoriginal creature imaginable.
  • Extract from : « Post-Impressions » by Simeon Strunsky
  • Yet one would be loath to approve his arguments, unoriginal as they are.
  • Extract from : « The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II) » by Henry Osborn Taylor
  • And so on—respectable answers, unoriginal but having the sanction of history, of just and generous minds.
  • Extract from : « The Trial of Callista Blake » by Edgar Pangborn
  • But the style of most of them is unoriginal, being merely an echo of that of the English Lake School.
  • Extract from : « John Greenleaf Whittier » by W. Sloane Kennedy
  • He would return a purse, I am sure, upon discovering that he had obtained it by an unoriginal diddle.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
  • For they are as hollow as a drum and as unoriginal as a bride-cake: nothing but vacuity with an icing of phrases.
  • Extract from : « Books and Persons » by Arnold Bennett
  • Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men.
  • Extract from : « Excursions and Poems » by Henry David Thoreau
  • The version, though offering many interesting features, is too late and unoriginal to be of use in the present investigation.
  • Extract from : « Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail » by Alfred Nutt
  • There also Leonardo came into contact with that unoriginal painter Lorenzo di Credi, his junior by seven years.
  • Extract from : « Leonardo da Vinci » by Maurice W. Brockwell

Synonyms for unoriginal

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