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Adjective: original u'rij(u)n(u)l- 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" - (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary
"his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources" - 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" - 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"
Noun: original u'rij(u)n(u)l- An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- master, master copy - Something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
"this painting is a copy of the original"
- archetype, pilot
Derived forms: originals See also: avant-garde, creative, daring, first, freehand, freehanded, fresh, germinal, groundbreaking, innovational, innovative, new, newfangled, novel, originality, originally, originative, primary, seminal, unconventional, underivative, underived Type of: creation, example, model Antonym: unoriginal Encyclopedia: Original |