单词 | unoriginative |
释义 | unoriginativeadj. Not originative, not producing or initiating something original. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > not original or derivative secondary1398 borrowed1571 third hand1598 denominative1624 second hand1654 second-handed1682 of second hand1708 unoriginal1749 uninventive1776 unoriginative1845 uncreative1855 hand-me-down1881 reach-me-down1907 cookie cutter1922 1845 R. Howitt Impressions Austral. Felix 326 They seem, like the aborigines, imitative but unoriginative. 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. iii. 114 Unlike the Aryans they [sc. the Etruscans] were unoriginative and receptive. 1918 N. Amer. Rev. May 738 Its author follows Shaw in preferring the originative mind and (it may be) a halting performance, to the unoriginative mind and (possibly) a complete performance. 1991 R. C. Morris Process Philos. & Polit. Ideol. ii. 40 The mental functioning of the occasion is consequently negligible, basically being confined to conceptual reproduction and unoriginative repetition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1845 |
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