“the manuscript contained
unoriginal emendations”
“"his life had been
unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham”
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conventional
following accepted customs and proprieties
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uncreative
not creative
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stale
lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
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banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
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bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous
dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
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cliched, ready-made
repeated regularly without thought or originality
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cold, dusty, moth-eaten, stale
lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
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slavish
blindly imitative
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secondary
being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
- Antonyms:
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original
being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of
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unconventional
not conforming to accepted rules or standards
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creative, originative
having the ability or power to create
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first
preceding all others in time or space or degree
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avant-garde, daring
radically new or original
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freehand, freehanded
done by hand without mechanical aids or devices
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fresh, new, novel
original and of a kind not seen before
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germinal, originative, seminal
containing seeds of later development
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groundbreaking, innovational, innovative
being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before
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new, newfangled
(of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new
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underivative
not derivative or imitative
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primary
of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
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