Original

[ə'rɪdʒɪn(ə)l;ɒ-] or [ə'rɪdʒənl]

Definition

(noun.) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies; 'this painting is a copy of the original'.

(adj.) not derived or copied or translated from something else; 'the play is original; not an adaptation'; 'he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox'; 'the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French' .

(adj.) preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed; 'the original inhabitants of the Americas'; 'the book still has its original binding'; 'restored the house to its original condition'; 'the original performance of the opera'; 'the original cast'; 'retracted his original statement' .

(adj.) being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; 'a truly original approach'; 'with original music'; 'an original mind' .

(adj.) (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; 'his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources' .

Typist: Wesley--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.

(a.) Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.

(a.) Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.

(a.) Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.

(n.) Origin; commencement; source.

(n.) That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.

(n.) An original thinker or writer; an originator.

(n.) A person of marked eccentricity.

(n.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Primitive, aboriginal, primeval, primary, primordial, pristine, first.[2]. Inventive, creative.

n. [1]. Source, spring, origin, cause.[2]. Archetype, model, pattern, type, prototype, protoplast, exemplar, first copy.[3]. [Colloquial.] Oddity, eccentric person.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Primary, initiatory, primordial, peculiar, pristine, ancient, former, first

ANT:Subsequent, terminal, modern, later, derivative

Editor: Margaret

Examples

Checker: Olivier

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