English adjective: unoriginal | |||
1. | unoriginal not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual | ||
Samples | The manuscript contained unoriginal emendations. His life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern. | ||
Similar | banal, bromidic, cliched, cold, commonplace, corny, dusty, hackneyed, moth-eaten, old-hat, platitudinal, platitudinous, ready-made, shopworn, slavish, stale, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn | ||
See also | conventional, secondary, stale, uncreative | ||
Attribute | originality | ||
Antonyms | original | ||