unoriginal

Synonyms:

conventional

following accepted customs and proprieties

uncreative

not creative

stale

lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age

banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous

dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality

cliched, ready-made

repeated regularly without thought or originality

cold, dusty, moth-eaten, stale

lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new

slavish

blindly imitative

secondary

being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate

Antonyms:

original

being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of

unconventional

not conforming to accepted rules or standards

creative, originative

having the ability or power to create

first

preceding all others in time or space or degree

avant-garde, daring

radically new or original

freehand, freehanded

done by hand without mechanical aids or devices

fresh, new, novel

original and of a kind not seen before

germinal, originative, seminal

containing seeds of later development

groundbreaking, innovational, innovative

being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

new, newfangled

(of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new

underivative

not derivative or imitative

primary

of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary

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