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original

an original model on which something is patterned

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"

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"

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"

(of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources"

Synonyms:

• Bohemian,
• 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,
• 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