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original
noun
1 original
An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made.
synonyms: master, master copy.
Roget 857:
laughingstock,
jestingstock†,
gazingstock†;
butt,
game,
fair game;
April fool
etc.
(dupe)
547†.
original,
oddity;
queer fish,
odd fish;
quiz,
square toes;
old monkey,
old fogey,
fogey monkey,
fogy monkey;
buffoon
etc.
(jester)
844;
pantomimist
etc.
(actor)
599.
schlemiel.
jest
etc.
(wit)
842.
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Roget 83:
nonconformity
etc.
82;
unconformity,
disconformity;
unconventionality,
informality,
abnormity†,
abnormality,
anomaly;
anomalousness
etc.
adj.†;
exception,
peculiarity;
infraction of law,
breach,
of law,
violation of law,
violation of custom,
violation of usage,
infringement of law,
infringement of custom,
infringement of usage;
teratism†,
eccentricity,
bizarrerie†,
oddity,
je ne sais quoi [Fr.],
monster,
monstrosity,
rarity;
freak,
freak of Nature,
weirdo,
mutant;
rouser,
snorter [U.S.].
individuality,
idiosyncrasy,
originality,
mannerism.
aberration;
irregularity;
variety;
singularity;
exemption;
salvo
etc.
(qualification)
469.
nonconformist;
nondescript,
character,
original,
nonesuch,
nonsuch†,
monster,
prodigy,
wonder,
miracle,
curiosity,
flying fish,
black sheep,
black swan,
lusus naturae [Lat.],
rara avis [Lat.],
queer fish;
mongrel,
random breed;
half-caste,
half-blood,
half-breed;
metis [Lat.],
crossbreed,
hybrid,
mule,
hinny,
mulatto;
tertium quid [Lat.],
hermaphrodite.
[Mythical animals]
phoenix,
chimera,
hydra,
sphinx,
minotaur;
griffin,
griffon;
centaur;
saggittary†;
kraken,
cockatrice,
wyvern,
roc,
dragon,
sea serpent;
mermaid,
merman,
merfolk†;
unicorn;
Cyclops,
men whose heads do grow beneath their men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders"
[Othello];
teratology.
[unconformable to the surroundings]
fish out of water;
neither one thing nor another,
neither fish nor fowl,
neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring;
one in a million,
one in a way,
one in a thousand;
outcast,
outlaw;
off the beaten track;
oasis.
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Dutch: minuut, origineel
2 original
Something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies:
— This painting is a copy of the original.
synonyms: archetype, pilot.
Roget 22:
prototype,
original,
model,
pattern,
precedent,
standard,
ideal,
reference,
scantling,
type;
archetype,
antitype†;
protoplast,
module,
exemplar,
example,
ensample†,
paradigm;
lay-figure.
text,
copy,
design;
fugleman†,
keynote.
die,
mold;
matrix,
last,
plasm†;
proplasm†,
protoplasm;
mint;
seal,
punch,
intaglio,
negative;
stamp.
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Dutch: prototype, archetype, glasfiber, grondvorm, oerbeeld, oervorm, type
adjective
1 original
Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed.
Roget 153:
caused
etc.
v.;
causal,
original;
primary,
primitive,
primordial;
aboriginal;
protogenal†;
radical;
embryonic,
embryotic†;
in embryo,
in ovo [Lat.];
seminal,
germinal;
at the bottom of;
connate,
having a common origin.
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Roget 600:
voluntary,
volitional,
willful;
free
etc.
748;
optional;
discretional,
discretionary;
volitient†,
volitive†.
minded
etc.
(willing)
602;
prepense
etc.
(predetermined)
611†;
intended
etc.
620;
autocratic;
unbidden
etc.
(bid)
etc.
741;
spontaneous;
original
etc.
(casual)
153;
unconstrained.
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Roget 515:
imagined
etc.
v.;
ben trovato [It];
air drawn,
airbuilt†.
imagining
etc.
v.,
imaginative;
original,
inventive,
creative,
fertile.
romantic,
high flown,
flighty,
extravagant,
fanatic,
enthusiastic,
unrealistic,
Utopian,
Quixotic.
ideal,
unreal;
in the clouds,
in nubibus [Lat.];
unsubsantial†
etc.
4;
illusory
etc.
(fallacious)
495.
fabulous,
legendary;
mythical,
mythic,
mythological;
chimerical;
imaginary,
visionary;
notional;
fancy,
fanciful,
fantastic,
fantastical†;
whimsical;
fairy,
fairy-like;
gestic†.
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Roget 18:
dissimilar,
unlike,
disparate;
divergent;
of a different kind;
etc.
(class)
75
unmatched,
unique;
new,
novel;
unprecedented
etc.
83;
original.
nothing of the kind;
no such thing,
quite another thing;
far from it,
cast in a different mold,
tertium quid [Lat.],
as like a dock as a daisy,
very like a whale"
[Hamlet];
as different as chalk from cheese,
as different as Macedon and Monmouth;
lucus a non lucendo [Lat.].
diversified
etc.
16.1.
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Roget 79:
special,
particular,
individual,
specific,
proper,
personal,
original,
private,
respective,
definite,
determinate,
especial,
certain,
esoteric,
endemic,
partial,
party,
peculiar,
appropriate,
several,
characteristic,
diagnostic,
exclusive;
singular
etc.
(exceptional)
83;
idiomatic;
idiotypical;
typical.
this,
that;
yon,
yonder.
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Roget 20:
unimitated†,
uncopied†;
unmatched,
unparalleled;
inimitable
etc.
13;
unique,
original;
creative,
inventive,
untranslated;
exceptional,
rare,
sui generis uncommon [Lat.],
unexampled.
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Roget 83:
uncomformable,
exceptional;
abnormal,
abnormous†;
anomalous,
anomalistic;
out of order,
out of place,
out of keeping,
out of tune,
out of one's element;
irregular,
arbitrary;
teratogenic;
lawless,
informal,
aberrant,
stray,
wandering,
wanton;
peculiar,
exclusive,
unnatural,
eccentric,
egregious;
out of the beaten track,
off the beaten track,
out of the common,
out of the common run;
beyond the pale of,
out of the pale of;
misplaced;
funny.
unusual,
unaccustomed,
uncustomary,
unwonted,
uncommon;
rare,
curious,
odd,
extraordinary,
out of the ordinary;
strange,
monstrous;
wonderful
etc.
870;
unexpected,
unaccountable;
outre [Fr.],
out of the way,
remarkable,
noteworthy;
queer,
quaint,
nondescript,
none such,
sui generis [Lat.];
unfashionable;
fantastic,
grotesque,
bizarre;
outlandish,
exotic,
tombe des nues [Fr.],
preternatural;
denaturalized†.
heterogeneous,
heteroclite [Gramm.],
amorphous,
mongrel,
amphibious,
epicene,
half blood,
hybrid;
androgynous,
androgynal†;
asymmetric
etc.
243;
adelomorphous†,
bisexual,
hermaphrodite,
monoclinous†.
qualified
etc.
469.
singular,
unique,
one-of-a-kind.
newfangled,
novel,
non-classical;
original,
unconventional,
unheard of,
unfamiliar;
undescribed,
unprecedented,
unparalleled,
unexampled.
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2 original
of e.g. information Not secondhand or by way of something intermediary.
3 original
Being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of.
Polish: oryginalny
4 original
Not derived or copied or translated from something else.
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