Unoriginal

Synonyms for "unoriginal" (92 found)

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platitudinous threadbare uncreative and arid back number back-number banal barren bewhiskered bromidic cliched clichéd common commonplace corny cut-and-dried

Adjective(2 words)

beaten clichéd

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derivative dry dull earthbound eclectic fade familiar fusty hack hackney hackneyed infecund infertile literal literal minded moth eaten moth-eaten mundane musty noncreative

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nongerminal nonseminal old hat

Adjective(4 words)

derivative dog-eared imitative pat

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Antonyms

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original

Synonyms

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clichéd uncreative

derived

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unoriginality unoriginally

derived from

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original

related to

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conventional original originality secondary stale uncreative

similar

30 entries

banal bromidic cliched cold commonplace conventional corny dusty hackneyed moth eaten moth-eaten old-hat platitudinal platitudinous

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You're unoriginal.

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The jokes were unoriginal.

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His life story is, in point of fact, vastly more complex and many-sided than the following handful of unpretentious and unoriginal pages suggest.

Source: tatoeba (12093893)

1758, William Hawkins, Tracts in Divinity, Oxford, Volume 2, Letter 12 [on Pope’ translations of Homer], pp. 418-419, Redundancies are as unoriginal as Insipidities, and the Spirit of an Author may be as much overwhelmed in Exuberance on the one Hand, as it evaporates in Frigidity on the other.

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