单词 | unoriginal |
释义 | unoriginal (once / 45812 pages) adj WORD FAMILY unoriginal: unoriginality, unoriginally+/original: originalism, originality, originally, originals, unoriginal/originality: originalities USAGE EXAMPLES“That’s what I really try to portray. I never try to be unoriginal.” Seattle Times(Nov 24, 2016) He could never really sing, people say; he can’t play the guitar particularly well; the songs themselves are said to be simplistic and unoriginal. The New Yorker(Oct 14, 2016) Al Dorow came up with the unoriginal but heartfelt retort: “Drop dead.” Washington Post(Oct 07, 2016) adj not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham Syn|Ant conventional following accepted customs and proprieties uncreativenot creative stalelacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-wornrepeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinousdull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality cliched, ready-maderepeated regularly without thought or originality cold, dusty, moth-eaten, stalelacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new slavishblindly imitative secondarybeing of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate original being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of unconventionalnot conforming to accepted rules or standards creative, originativehaving the ability or power to create firstpreceding all others in time or space or degree avant-garde, daringradically new or original freehand, freehandeddone by hand without mechanical aids or devices fresh, new, noveloriginal and of a kind not seen before germinal, originative, seminalcontaining seeds of later development groundbreaking, innovational, innovativebeing or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before new, newfangled(of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new underivativenot derivative or imitative primaryof first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary |
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