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unoriginal

adj

Etymology

From un- + original.

  1. derived from orīgō — “beginning, source, origin”
  2. derived from orīginālis — “primitive, original”
  3. derived from original
  4. inherited from original
  5. prefixed as unoriginal — “un + original”

Definitions

  1. Lacking originality.

    • Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. They cannot see what it is to do for them: how should they?
    • “[…] Everything in its proper time and season,” he added, with the unoriginal man’s fondness for proverbial philosophy.

  2. Not being the first or earliest version of something, not original.

  3. Without an origin or source.

    • [I] plung’d in the womb Of unoriginal Night and Chaos wilde,
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A person or work that does not exhibit originality.

      • Ahmad (1969) studied the personality differences among middle school girls identified as originals and unoriginals on the Minnesota's test of creative thinking.
      • The originals or the creatives were more dominant than the unoriginals or the low creatives.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unoriginal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01unoriginal02version03exercise04skill05knowledge06familiarity07familiar08commonplace09platitude

A definitional loop anchored at unoriginal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at unoriginal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA