What is another word for original?
1166 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ əɹˈɪd͡ʒɪnə͡l], [ əɹˈɪdʒɪnəl], [ ə_ɹ_ˈɪ_dʒ_ɪ_n_əl]
The word original refers to something that is unique and not copied or borrowed from some other source. When it comes to synonyms, original has quite a few. Some common alternatives include authentic, first-generation, innovative, one-of-a-kind, fresh, virgin, spontaneous, and creative. Some other noteworthy synonyms include avant-garde, ground-breaking, individual, unconventional, inventive, imaginative, and pioneering. Each of these synonyms captures a slightly different aspect of what makes something original, but they all convey the idea of something that is unique, distinct, and created from scratch rather than being influenced by existing patterns or conventions.
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Similar words for original:
- aboriginal (adjective)
- actual (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- authentic (adjective)
- beginning (adjective)
- bona fide (adjective)
- brand-new (adjective)
- characteristic (adjective)
- creative (adjective)
- different (adjective)
- distinctive (adjective)
- earliest (adjective)
- early (adjective)
- elementary (adjective)
- first (adjective)
- foremost (adjective)
- fresh (adjective)
- fresh, new (adjective)
- fundamental (adjective)
- genuine (adjective)
- imaginative (adjective)
- indigenous (adjective)
- individual (adjective)
- inherent (adjective)
- initial (adjective)
- innovative (adjective)
- intelligent (adjective)
- introductory (adjective)
- inventive (adjective)
- lifelike (adjective)
- maiden (adjective)
- master (adjective)
- mint (adjective)
- naive (adjective)
- native (adjective)
- nonconformist (adjective)
- old (adjective)
- olden (adjective)
- organic (adjective)
- original (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pioneer (adjective)
- primal (adjective)
- primary/prime (adjective)
- pristine (adjective)
- real (adjective)
- refreshing (adjective)
- resourceful (adjective)
- savage (adjective)
- sharp (adjective)
- single (adjective)
- singular (adjective)
- transcendent (adjective)
- transcendent/transcendental (adjective)
- uncommon (adjective)
- unconventional (adjective)
- unfamiliar (adjective)
- unspoiled (adjective)
- valid (adjective)
- virgin/virginal (adjective)
- witty (adjective)
- ancient (noun)
- archetype (noun)
- avant-garde (noun)
- character (noun)
- composition (noun)
- criterion (noun)
- daring (noun)
- eccentric (noun)
- example (noun)
- freehand (noun)
- freehanded (noun)
- free spirit (noun)
- invention (noun)
- master copy (noun)
- model (noun)
- newfangled (noun)
- nonconformist (noun)
- novelty (noun)
- oddity/oddball (noun)
- original (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- paradigm (noun)
- paragon (noun)
- pattern (noun)
- person who is eccentric (noun)
- precursor (noun)
- presager (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- fertile
- genuine
- interesting
- other relevant words
- transcendent
Synonyms for Original:
adj.
• aboriginal (adjective) • actual (adjective) • all (adjective) • authentic (adjective)- re liable,
- most certain,
- re-liable,
- re-liabler,
- twentyfour carat,
- faithful,
- twenty four carat,
- re-liablest,
- re liablest,
- re liabler.
- incipient,
- inaugural,
- primeval,
- fetal,
- emerging,
- infant,
- maiden,
- budding,
- hatching,
- sprouting,
- preliminary,
- embryonic,
- early,
- formative,
- newborn,
- primordial,
- initiatory,
- Dawned,
- starting,
- alpha,
- initial,
- Commencing,
- genesis,
- baby,
- preparatory,
- beginning,
- infantile,
- Inceptive.
- mint.
- dis-criminating,
- re-presentative,
- dis-criminative,
- symptomatic,
- most inbred,
- in-bred,
- in born,
- more inbred,
- dis criminating,
- in-born,
- in-grained,
- more differentiating,
- individualistic,
- more individualizing,
- in bred,
- re presentative,
- re-gular,
- most special,
- most differentiating,
- most individualizing,
- re gular,
- in grained,
- dis criminative.
- constructive,
- productive,
- prolific,
- visionary,
- conceptive,
- inventive,
- fertile,
- innovational,
- inspired.
- meat potatoes,
- more foundational,
- more simplex,
- more beginning,
- be-ginning,
- un-complex,
- most abecedarian,
- child play,
- under lying,
- substratal,
- most primo,
- most foundational,
- most abcs,
- sub stratal,
- more uncomplex,
- most substratal,
- un complicated,
- childs play,
- be ginning,
- un complex,
- more primo,
- un-complicated,
- uncomplicated,
- most simplex,
- under-lying,
- more abcs,
- most beginning,
- sub-stratal,
- most uncomplex,
- more abecedarian,
- more substratal.
- in beginning,
- most primogenial,
- head most,
- more ahead,
- more headmost,
- in-augural,
- most ahead,
- most headmost,
- in augural,
- most opening,
- more primogenial,
- most inaugural,
- more inaugural,
- more opening,
- right front,
- head-most.
- at leading edge,
- more hotshot,
- most hotshot,
- fore most,
- para mount,
- pre eminent,
- A 1,
- heavyweight,
- more hotdog,
- fore-most,
- most hotdog,
- heavy stuff,
- para-mount.
- more comer,
- what happening,
- more neoteric,
- hot off the press,
- un touched,
- nower,
- more newborn,
- this seasons,
- hot press,
- most newborn,
- nowest,
- this season,
- unprocessed,
- un processed,
- most comer,
- up to date,
- whats happening,
- un-seasoned,
- un seasoned,
- un-processed,
- un-touched,
- most neoteric,
- hot the press.
- devising,
- novel,
- generative,
- sensitive,
- originative,
- quick,
- envisioning,
- avant garde,
- causal,
- innovative,
- inspiring,
- ready,
- untried,
- Demiurgic,
- Conceiving.
- more grass-roots,
- more underived,
- most bottom-line,
- more meat and potatoes,
- most grass-roots,
- more axiological,
- bottomline,
- more bottom-line,
- more bottomline,
- grass-roots,
- un derived,
- more grassroots,
- most substrative,
- most bottomline,
- most meat and potatoes,
- grassroots,
- most underived,
- most axiological,
- most grassroots,
- grass roots,
- most sustaining,
- un-derived,
- more sustaining,
- in-dispensable,
- more bottom line,
- fundamental,
- most meat-and-potatoes,
- more meat-and-potatoes,
- most bottom line,
- more grass roots,
- in dispensable,
- more substrative,
- most grass roots,
- most fundamental.
- more honest-to-goodness,
- most -carat,
- more honest to goodness,
- most sure enough,
- in dubitable,
- more -carat,
- most authenticated,
- real stuff,
- in the flesh,
- un-varnished,
- more sure enough,
- in-dubitable,
- more certified,
- most honest-to-goodness,
- more unalloyed,
- more carat,
- un alloyed,
- un-questionable,
- more sure-enough,
- un-impeachable,
- un-doubted,
- honest-to-goodness,
- most unalloyed,
- most honest to goodness,
- in flesh,
- sureenough,
- un varnished,
- most sureenough,
- un impeachable,
- most carat,
- most sure-enough,
- more authenticated,
- un-alloyed,
- un doubted,
- more sureenough,
- un adulterated,
- most certified,
- honest to goodness,
- un-adulterated.
- high flown,
- more blue sky,
- more pie in the sky,
- more blue-sky,
- most pie-in-the-sky,
- bluesky,
- most blue sky,
- more pie-in-the-sky,
- highflown,
- avantgarde,
- more bluesky,
- most blue-sky,
- most bluesky,
- most pie in the sky.
- de-finite,
- in-divisible,
- more unitary,
- in dividual,
- most personalized,
- re served,
- de finite,
- personalized,
- in-dividual,
- in divisible,
- more personalized,
- re-served,
- most unitary.
- in built,
- deepseated,
- part parcel,
- builtin,
- built in,
- in grain,
- more unalienable,
- resident,
- deeprooted,
- running in family,
- most resident,
- part and parcel,
- unalienable,
- deep rooted,
- most inbuilt,
- running family,
- in dwelling,
- un alienable,
- running the family,
- genetic,
- more resident,
- un-alienable,
- deep seated,
- indwelling,
- most unalienable,
- integrated,
- more inbuilt,
- in-dwelling.
- most commencing,
- more commencing,
- more germinal,
- more nascent,
- more initiative,
- initiative,
- most germinal,
- most nascent,
- most initiative,
- in choate,
- in-choate.
- more innovative,
- more cuttingedge,
- most cuttingedge,
- more cutting-edge,
- more cutting edge,
- cuttingedge,
- most cutting-edge,
- most cutting edge.
- pre cursory,
- more starting,
- most preparative,
- more inductive,
- more proemial,
- most starting,
- most inductive,
- most prelusive,
- most precursory,
- pro-visional,
- most proemial,
- more precursory,
- pro visional,
- more prelusive,
- pre-cursory,
- more preparative,
- provisional.
- true to life,
- re-presentational,
- most representational,
- representational,
- more representational,
- true life,
- re presentational.
- un triedest,
- more unbroached,
- un-trieder,
- most untapped,
- un-triedest,
- un trieder,
- un-broached,
- un tried,
- un-tapped,
- most unbroached,
- more untapped,
- un tapped,
- un-tried,
- in-tact,
- un broached,
- unbroached,
- in tact,
- un-used.
- more spanking-new,
- spankingnew,
- most spanking new,
- un tarnished,
- spick and span,
- un damaged,
- more spankingnew,
- un-tarnished,
- more spanking new,
- most spanking-new,
- most spankingnew,
- un marred,
- un-blemished,
- un-damaged,
- un-marred.
- in nocent,
- more unjaded,
- un worldly,
- like a babe the woods,
- like babe woods,
- like a babe in woods,
- un-schooled,
- un worldliest,
- patsier,
- most unjaded,
- more sucker,
- un schooled,
- in-nocent,
- more confiding,
- like a babe woods,
- like babe in the woods,
- more wide eyed,
- un sophisticated,
- un-taught,
- most confiding,
- un-pretentious,
- most unsuspicious,
- most wide eyed,
- patsiest,
- like babe the woods,
- in nocuous,
- un-worldly,
- un-suspecting,
- more unsuspicious,
- simple minded,
- like babe in woods,
- un affected,
- un taught,
- lambest,
- wide eyed,
- most wideeyed,
- lamber,
- untaught,
- un-jaded,
- unjaded,
- un-worldlier,
- un-suspicious,
- more wideeyed,
- un suspecting,
- un-worldliest,
- most wide-eyed,
- un jaded,
- wideeyed,
- un suspicious,
- most sucker,
- in-nocuous,
- un worldlier,
- more wide-eyed.
- in wrought,
- most natal,
- national,
- more belonging,
- more from,
- in-wrought,
- most belonging,
- most from,
- be-longing,
- most inwrought,
- more natal,
- most implanted,
- more implanted,
- more inwrought,
- re-lated,
- be longing.
- nonconformist,
- more maverick,
- more beatnik,
- most bohemian,
- more oddball,
- more schismatic,
- freakest,
- non conformist,
- heretical,
- more bohemian,
- more hippie,
- most beatnik,
- most hippie,
- most maverick,
- most schismatic.
- olden,
- oldfangled,
- ageold,
- wornout,
- time-worn,
- old fashioned,
- oldfashioned,
- of yore,
- cast-off,
- castoff,
- out of date,
- of old.
- more amoebic,
- more biotic,
- more plasmic,
- more cellular,
- most plasmic,
- bio-logical,
- most anatomical,
- most amoebic,
- more anatomical,
- bio logical,
- more nuclear,
- most biotic,
- most cellular,
- most nuclear.
- lead off,
- resourceful,
- realistic,
- unanswerable,
- in a state of nature,
- substrative,
- inbuilt,
- in the beginning,
- one-of-a-kind,
- numero uno,
- just out,
- amoebic,
- uncomplex,
- pregnant,
- beyond grasp,
- unalloyed,
- like a babe in the woods,
- pie-in-the-sky,
- hot off press,
- freaker,
- pre-eminent,
- running in the family,
- sure enough,
- real,
- creative,
- refreshing,
- primal,
- in force,
- single,
- organic,
- introductory,
- at the leading edge,
- inherent,
- hot stuff,
- hotdog,
- the latest,
- unequalled,
- meat-and-potatoes,
- unmodified,
- bottom-line,
- germinal,
- genuine,
- distinctive,
- off the beaten track,
- authentic,
- ingenious,
- Proemial,
- earliest,
- pioneer,
- aboriginal,
- uninvestigated,
- seminal,
- native,
- one of a kind,
- causative,
- at the cutting edge,
- quaint,
- in-built,
- Prelusive,
- underived,
- this season's,
- first class,
- different,
- out in left field,
- nascent,
- prolegomenous,
- carat,
- breaking new ground,
- unconventional,
- underivative,
- firstclass,
- untapped,
- imaginative,
- at cutting edge,
- wide-eyed,
- anarchistic,
- transmundane,
- innovatory,
- right up front,
- intelligent,
- savage,
- fresh,
- foremost,
- master,
- Plasmic,
- foundational,
- lifelike,
- naive,
- off beaten track,
- pristine,
- Unequalable,
- un-ordinary,
- brain wave,
- Headmost,
- axiological,
- bona fide,
- Primogenial,
- cutting-edge,
- blue-sky,
- Unacquired,
- sure-enough,
- unsuspicious,
- individual,
- inwrought,
- anatomical,
- twenty-four carat,
- in the grain,
- inductive,
- breaking ground,
- non-conformist,
- primo,
- second to none,
- nonliterate,
- spanking new,
- unrivalled,
- what's happening,
- blue sky,
- precursory,
- characteristic,
- natal,
- cellular,
- biotic,
- little known,
- uncustomary,
- unheard of,
- for real,
- first,
- Forgetive,
- transcendent,
- preparative,
- chthonic,
- Neoteric,
- actual,
- swinger,
- uncommon,
- oldest,
- hotshot,
- nuclear,
- spanking-new,
- simplex,
- unitary,
- radical,
- indigenous.
- most primary,
- un derivative,
- three r,
- more underivative,
- most underivative,
- un-derivative,
- three rs.
- most embodied,
- more substantive,
- pre-sent,
- un deniable,
- un-feigned,
- more embodied,
- un-deniable,
- un feigned,
- pre sent,
- most substantive.
- un cultured,
- most unbroken,
- un broken,
- in state of nature,
- non literate,
- un-cultured,
- un-modified,
- un modified,
- more nonliterate,
- un civilized,
- un-broken,
- un domesticated,
- un-domesticated,
- un-cultivated,
- more unbroken,
- in a state nature,
- most nonliterate,
- un-restrained,
- most unmodified,
- in state nature,
- more unmodified,
- un cultivated,
- non-literate,
- un-civilized.
- quick on the trigger,
- having smarts,
- smart as a tack,
- penetrative,
- nobody's fool,
- sharp,
- quick on trigger,
- quick on the uptake.
- uncompounded,
- not general,
- not public,
- singled-out,
- unblended,
- singled out,
- unmixed,
- unshared,
- without equal.
- un ordinary,
- un imaginable,
- un wonted,
- un-imaginable,
- un-wonted,
- singular,
- un-thinkable,
- un-paralleled,
- un thinkable,
- un paralleled.
- more transmundane,
- most transcending,
- most unrivalled,
- more unequalled,
- super natural,
- more exceeding,
- in finite,
- more transcendent,
- more transcendental,
- un-rivalled,
- un rivalled,
- more unequalable,
- trans-mundane,
- second none,
- sur-passing,
- in comparable,
- un equalled,
- most transmundane,
- super-natural,
- hypo-thetical,
- most unequalled,
- un-equalled,
- most surpassing,
- in-finite,
- more surpassing,
- hypo thetical,
- trans mundane,
- more unrivalled,
- most unequalable,
- more transcending,
- in-comparable,
- most exceeding,
- sub-lime,
- sub lime.
- more seldom,
- un customary,
- in frequent,
- un common,
- sur prising,
- sur-prising,
- few,
- un commonest,
- more uncustomary,
- un-commoner,
- out way,
- un commoner,
- most seldom,
- un-common,
- un-commonest,
- out of way,
- in-frequent,
- un-customary,
- more outre,
- most uncustomary,
- out the way,
- most outre.
- in formal,
- more anarchistic,
- most weirdo,
- more weirdo,
- wayout,
- free easy,
- out left field,
- off wall,
- in-formal,
- farout,
- most anarchistic,
- un conventional,
- un-ceremonious,
- un-conventional.
- un expected,
- most uninvestigated,
- un investigated,
- un-expected,
- un-investigated,
- more uninvestigated,
- un-familiar,
- un-explored,
- un familiar,
- un explored.
n.
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•
- one,
- daub,
- firsthand,
- canvas,
- doodle,
- unused,
- Imitated,
- principal,
- caricature,
- independent,
- pure,
- new-fashioned,
- unusual,
- unexampled,
- cartoon,
- abstract,
- copied,
- bas relief,
- diptych,
- aquatint,
- collage,
- lone,
- elemental,
- sole.
-
•
- start,
- from the get-go,
- prime,
- at first.
-
•
- reproduction,
- copy.
-
•
- ability.
- queer ducks,
- threedollar bill,
- three dollar bills,
- odd persons,
- three dollar bill,
- threedollar bills,
- three-dollar bills.
- de sign,
- de-signs,
- re sourcefulness,
- in novation,
- in novations,
- de signs,
- re-sourcefulness,
- in-novations,
- re sourcefulnesses,
- de-sign,
- re-sourcefulnesses,
- in-novation.
- dis-sentient,
- misbelievers,
- mis believers,
- fish out water,
- mis-believers,
- mis believer,
- night people,
- night persons,
- dis sentient,
- dis sentients,
- mis-believer,
- pro tester,
- non conformists,
- non-conformists,
- pro-testers,
- different breeds,
- offbeats,
- dis-sentients,
- pro testers,
- pro-tester.
- sur prise,
- recentnesses,
- sur-prises,
- un familiarities,
- un-familiarity,
- newfangled contraptions,
- un-familiarities,
- un familiarity,
- sur-prise,
- sur prises.
- hippie,
- for instance,
- eccentric,
- Re-presentation,
- swingers,
- exemplar,
- separatist,
- character,
- markings,
- type,
- exemplification,
- malcontents,
- lessons,
- odd people,
- ingeniousness,
- ultimates,
- point of comparison,
- Ensample,
- sublimations,
- kind of thing,
- free spirit,
- LIBERALS,
- archetype,
- gem,
- criterion,
- night person,
- queer duck,
- pattern,
- paradigm,
- strangeness,
- novelties,
- classic exemplar,
- odd bird,
- different breed,
- Templates,
- crazies,
- Oddities,
- innovativeness,
- stencils,
- model,
- newfangled contraption,
- three-dollar bill,
- peach,
- weirds,
- novelty,
- prime example,
- vicissitude,
- resourcefulness,
- invention,
- Peaches,
- misbeliever,
- template,
- recentness,
- odd person,
- exemplifications,
- samplings,
- inventiveness,
- modernities,
- stencil,
- cynosure,
- Newfangledness,
- sublimation,
- paragon,
- lesson,
- Rara Avis,
- perfect specimen,
- modernity,
- lovelies,
- example,
- outlier,
- dissentient,
- foreshadower,
- dissentients.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- knockoff,
- clever,
- man of the people,
- the earliest,
- originally,
- oddball,
- underlying,
- one-off,
- recent,
- species,
- REPRO,
- replica,
- photocopy,
- natural,
- xerox,
- protoplast,
- initially,
- Jekyll And Hyde,
- plagiarism,
- all along,
- front end.
-
•
- duplicate,
- facsimile,
- mechanical,
- forgery,
- undoubted,
- card,
- opening,
- oddity,
- enlargement,
- basal,
- indubitable,
- photostat,
- practitioner,
- transcript.
-
•
- fake.
-
•
- reconstruction,
- dummy.
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•
- father.
-
•
- good.
- diverting,
- rich,
- quotable,
- mesmeric,
- thought-provoking,
- exotic,
- mesmerizing,
- sparkling,
- romantic,
- spellbinding,
- notable,
- gripping,
- compelling,
- colorful,
- terrific,
- juicy,
- fascinating,
- inviting,
- absorbing,
- inspirational,
- hypnotic,
- scintillating,
- engrossing,
- watchable,
- consuming,
- riveting,
- interestingly,
- interesting,
- striking,
- tempting,
- enthralling,
- intriguing,
- stimulating,
- alive,
- piquant,
- exciting,
- arresting,
- notably.
- new.
How to use "Original" in context?
Originality is often mistaken for innovation, but the two concepts are distinctly different. When it comes to creativity, originality is all about taking existing ideas and concepts and turning them on their heads. It's the lens through which an idea or product is viewed, and it's what allows for new developments and progress. By comparison, innovation is the process of creating something new from scratch. It's about coming up with a new idea or concept, turning it into a reality, and seeing it come to life.
While there is no one definitive definition of originality, it can generally be described as something that is completely new, unique, and innovative.
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Independent
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Adjective
actual, authentic, autograph, creative, distinctive, existing, imaginative, inaugural, innovative, inventive, main, novel, old, previous, primeval, primordial, pristine, real, seminal, unconventional, unique, unusual, Pioneering, up-front.
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Proper noun, singular
originally, Rights, paragraphs, nations, origins, subsections.
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Noun, plural
media, Parties, conclusions, issues, members, observations.
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Noun, singular or mass
novel, submission.
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Adverb
originally.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
existing, meeting, Authorizing.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
genuine.
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Proper noun, singular
genuine.
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Noun, singular or mass
genuine.
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Verb, past tense
genuine.
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Adjective
Word of the Day
sticker shock
- Synonyms:
- appraise, bargain, beat down, bottom out, bounce back, cap, cheapen, Capping.
