Definition of unoriginal Unoriginal
un•o•rig•i•nal
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What does unoriginal mean?
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| unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham | ||
| original 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" | ||
| conventional following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" | ||
| secondary belonging to a lower class or rank | ||
| stale lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale" | ||
| uncreative not creative; "an uncreative imagination" | ||
| originality the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) | ||
| banal, trite, hackneyed, timeworn, tired, threadbare, well-worn, shopworn, old-hat, commonplace, stock repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" | ||
| corny, platitudinal, platitudinous, bromidic dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons" | ||
| cliched, ready-made repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases" | ||
| dusty, stale, moth-eaten, cold covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- unoriginal (Adjective)
Lacking originality.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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unoriginal
un-ō-rij′in-al, adj. not original: (Milt.) without origin, birth, or source.—adjs. Unorig′ināte, -d.—n. Unorig′inātedness.—adv. Unorig′inātely
