unoriginal

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good or important because of unusual qualities
specialAre you doing anything special for your birthday?
exceptionalTheir standard of acting was very high but there was one exceptional performance.
outstandingHe accepted an award for outstanding achievement in baseball.
extraordinaryHer capacity to remember things is extraordinary.
deluxeThe salesman tried to sell us the deluxe model.

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recently appeared, arrived, or developed
newI bought a new suit for my interview.
brand newThe company unveiled a brand new product this week.
novelThat's a novel way of approaching the problem.
novelThe bank has introduced a novel way of detecting fraud.
innovativeThe project uses innovative ideas for recycling.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

New
afresh
be ahead of the curveidiom
box-fresh
brand new
ink
innovative
innovatively
latest
newly
newness
next-gen
next-generation
novel
the avant-garde
the ink is not dry/still wetidiom
unhackneyed
unheard-of
unprecedented
up-to-the-minuteidiom
youth
original
noun[ C ]
uk /əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/ us /əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/
B2
the first one made and not a copy: 原版，原件，原稿
Can you give me the original of your report? I can't read this copy.能把你报告的原件给我吗？我看不清这份复印件。
B2
a piece of work by a famous artist or designer and not a copy by someone else: 原作，真迹，真品
If the painting is an original, it will be very valuable.如果这幅画是原作，会非常值钱。
 in the original
If you read something in the original, you read it in the language in which it was first written: 用原著的语言，以原文
As part of his studies, he read Homer in the original.
This painting is only a copy - the original hangs in the Louvre.这幅画只是摹本——原画挂在卢浮宫里。
This watch may be a counterfeit, but it looks just like the original.
The new version is worse in every respect - I much preferred the original.新版本在各方面都较差——我更喜欢原来的版本。
The new version of the program comes with a much better user interface than the original.
It's an original, not one of those imitation jobs.这是原件，不是仿制品。

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advertisement
aliquot
archetype
benchmark
benchmarking
cross-section
exemplification
flavour
for instanceidiom
forerunner
illustration
incarnation
prototype
qua
quintessence
role model
sample
showpiece
specimen
taste

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The visual arts in general

original | American Dictionary

original
noun[ C ]
us/əˈrɪdʒ·ə·nəl/
the first one made and not a copy:
Send a copy of your receipt, but keep the original.
An original is also a piece of work by an artist or designer and not a copy by someone else.
Someone who is an original behaves or speaks in a way that is not like other people.
original
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/əˈrɪdʒ·ə·nəl/
in the earliest form of something, or in the form that existed at the beginning:
The original plans have been changed.
Original can also mean different from anything or anyone else and therefore new and interesting:
Our teacher said we’d better come up with something original.
An original piece of work, such as a painting or drawing, is produced by the artist or writer and is not a copy.

original | Business English

original
adjective
uk /əˈrɪdʒənəl/us
spoken, written, or existing first:
The final cost was much greater than the contractor's original estimate.
We have more than doubled our original investment.
His original plan was to stay two to three years, but he loved the job so much that he has never left.
Please do not send original documents with your application.
not the same as anything or anyone else and for that reason special and interesting:
original idea/suggestion, etc.We need some original ideas that will increase sales.
She's a highly original young designer.
original
noun[ C ]
uk /əˈrɪdʒənəl/us
the first one made and not a copy:
Can you let me have the original of your report?
Sign the original and return it to us, keeping the copy for your records.
The new version is worse in every respect - I much preferred the original.

Examples of original

original
The substitute and transposed arias are inserted into the score after the originals and are cued in with ' altra'.
From an algorithmic point of view, dictionary based text rewriting is complicated by the fact that occurrences of originals in a text may overlap.
At least at first, the resurrection counterparts are very similar to their earthly originals.
One way to give them more natural lives is to give them lives that are more similar to the lives of their earthly originals.
Read this book to get a multitude of flavours of the period : but go to the originals rather than quote it extensively.
Basically this means that there is a preference for replacing originals that start first in the natural (left-to-right) reading order.
While the early music practice aims at faithful reproduction of historical originals, some ethnomusicological approaches aim at recreating local settings.
In addition to the 12 core events, 24 events were created that differed systematically from the originals.
However, even the most perfect reproduction lacks the unicity of the original's presence at the place where it dwells.
Dictionarybased text rewriting simply means to replace occurrences of originals in an input text by their corresponding substitutes.
The verbal description and the hand gesture in relation to the originals elaborate each other.
In excerpts (1) and (2), the customers have their originals ready for referring before they produce the reference.
Customers provide some of the raw materials, the "originals," and specify the services to be performed on them.
The customer requests copies of this (line 01) and rotates a stack of originals to face the employee (line 02).
Unfortunately, her discussion fails to contribute any understanding beyond what graduate students might get from simply reading these originals.
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