'original' definitions:
Definition of 'original'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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"
adjective
(of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources"
adjective
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" [ant: unoriginal]
adjective
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
An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made [syn: master, master copy, original]
noun
Synonyms of 'original'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ab ovo,
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- actual,
- advanced,
- alien,
- antenatal,
- antetype,
- antitype,
- archetypal,
- archetype,
- article,
- authentic,
- autochthonous,
- autograph,
- avant-garde,
- basal,
- basic,
- basilar,
- beat,
- beatnik,
- beginning,
- biotype,
- Bohemian,
- bona fide,
- brainchild,
- breakaway,
- budding,
- callow,
- candid,
- card,
- card-carrying,
- case,
- central,
- character,
- classic example,
- commencement,
- composition,
- computer printout,
- conception,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- constituent,
- constitutive,
- copy,
- crackpot,
- crank,
- creative,
- criterion,
- crucial,
- demiurgic,
- derivation,
- deviant,
- dewy,
- different,
- dinkum,
- dissenter,
- document,
- draft,
- dropout,
- duck,
- earliest,
- eccentric,
- edited version,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- endemic,
- engrossment,
- epitome,
- esemplastic,
- essay,
- essential,
- ever-new,
- evergreen,
- exploratory,
- extra,
- fair copy,
- fanatic,
- far out,
- fecund,
- fertile,
- fetal,
- fiction,
- final draft,
- finished version,
- first,
- first draft,
- firsthand,
- fledgling,
- flimsy,
- flower child,
- following the letter,
- forerunner,
- formative,
- foundational,
- freak,
- free and easy,
- fresh,
- fringy,
- fugleman,
- fugler,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- genesis,
- genetic,
- genotype,
- genuine,
- germinal,
- gestatory,
- good,
- grass roots,
- green,
- gut,
- head,
- held back,
- held in reserve,
- held out,
- heretic,
- heretical,
- hermit,
- heterodox,
- hippie,
- hobo,
- holograph,
- homebred,
- homegrown,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- imaginative,
- imitatee,
- immature,
- in abeyance,
- in embryo,
- in hand,
- in its infancy,
- in ovo,
- in the bud,
- inartificial,
- inaugural,
- inception,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- indigenous,
- individualist,
- infant,
- infantile,
- informal,
- ingenious,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- innovation,
- innovational,
- innovative,
- inspired,
- intact,
- introducer,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- inventor,
- kinky,
- kook,
- lawful,
- lead,
- legitimate,
- letter,
- lifelike,
- literae scriptae,
- literal,
- literary artefact,
- literary production,
- literature,
- lone wolf,
- loner,
- lucubration,
- maiden,
- maidenly,
- manuscript,
- master,
- material,
- matter,
- maverick,
- meshuggenah,
- mint,
- mirror,
- misfit,
- model,
- mother,
- nascent,
- natal,
- native,
- native-born,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- neoteric,
- nestling,
- new,
- new departure,
- nonconformist,
- nonfiction,
- nonjuror,
- not cricket,
- not done,
- not kosher,
- notional,
- novel,
- nut,
- odd fellow,
- oddball,
- oddity,
- of the essence,
- offbeat,
- opus,
- origin,
- origination,
- originative,
- originator,
- outsider,
- paper,
- paradigm,
- parchment,
- pariah,
- parturient,
- pattern,
- penscript,
- piece,
- piece of writing,
- pilot model,
- pioneer,
- play,
- poem,
- postnatal,
- precedent,
- preceding,
- precursor,
- pregnant,
- preliminary,
- prenatal,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- primordial,
- printed matter,
- printout,
- pristine,
- procreative,
- production,
- productive,
- prolific,
- protogenic,
- prototypal,
- prototype,
- prototypical,
- provenience,
- pure,
- put aside,
- put by,
- queer duck,
- queer fish,
- queer specimen,
- quiz,
- radical,
- radix,
- rara avis,
- raw,
- reading matter,
- real,
- realistic,
- recension,
- representative,
- reproduction,
- reserve,
- revolutionary,
- rightful,
- rise,
- root,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- rule,
- saved,
- screed,
- screwball,
- scrip,
- script,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- second draft,
- sectarian,
- sectary,
- seminal,
- sempervirent,
- shaping,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- solitary,
- source,
- spare,
- spook,
- standard,
- starting,
- stem,
- sterling,
- stock,
- stored,
- strange,
- substantial,
- substantive,
- sure-enough,
- suspended,
- swinger,
- taproot,
- teeming,
- the written word,
- to spare,
- tramp,
- transcript,
- transcription,
- true,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- type,
- type species,
- type specimen,
- typescript,
- ugly duckling,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unapplied,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- unbeaten,
- uncolored,
- uncommon,
- unconcocted,
- unconformist,
- unconsumed,
- unconventional,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- underived,
- underlying,
- undeveloped,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unemployed,
- unexaggerated,
- unexercised,
- unexpended,
- unfabricated,
- unfamiliar,
- unfanciful,
- unfashionable,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unfledged,
- unhandled,
- unheard-of,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unique,
- unorthodox,
- unprecedented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unspent,
- unsynthetic,
- untapped,
- untouched,
- untried,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unusual,
- unutilized,
- unvarnished,
- ur,
- urtext,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- vernacular,
- vernal,
- version,
- virgin,
- virginal,
- visioned,
- waived,
- way out,
- word-for-word,
- work,
- writing,
- yippie,
- young,
- zealot