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 | ||