Unoriginal

Definition: Unoriginal

Unoriginal

Adjective

1. Not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham.

Date "unoriginal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Antonym: original (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Copy	Unoriginal, imitative, derivative.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unoriginal

English words defined with "unoriginal": unoriginality. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Unoriginal" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (unoriginal).

Domain	Title
Books	The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice Cream God (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act!: The Unoriginal Cast Recording, Volume 5 (1998 New York Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
John Stuart Mill	Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	As a matter of fact, at this point, the only thing that galls me about someone burning the American flag is how unoriginal it is.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Unoriginal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unoriginal" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	21	76,261

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "unoriginal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		joorigjinal (ready made). (various references)

Arabic		‏مزيف (bogus, counterfeiter, fabricated, faked, forged, imitator, phoney, sham, specious, spurious, theatrical), ‏غير أصلي. (various references)

Bulgarian		неоригинален (imitative, mechanical, ready-for-service, sequacious). (various references)

Czech		nepùvodní (derivative). (various references)

French		standard, sans originalité. (various references)

German		unoriginal. (various references)

Hebrew		לא מקורי. (various references)

Hungarian		utánzott (bogus, counterfeit, false, imitative, mock). (various references)

Pig Latin		originalunay

Portuguese		vulgar (accepted, artless, banal, blanket, coarse, common, commonplace, demotic, dismal, earthy, everyday, gossipy, gross, hackney, hackneyed, humdrum, inelaborate, low, low-minded, mediocre, ordinary, pedestrian, penny-a-line, platitudinarian, platitudinous, prosaic, quotidian, ready-made, soulless, trite, trivial, undistinguished, uninspired, unladylike, usual, vulgar, vulgarian), sem originalidade (ready-made), não original (ready-made), banal (banal, characterless, common, commonplace, dismal, flimsy, hackneyed, humdrum, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, prosaic, prosy, quotidian, ready-made, stale, trifling, trite, trivial, undistinguished, unimportant, vulgar). (various references)

Romanian		neoriginal. (various references)

Russian		неоригинальный (imitative, ready made). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neoriginalan (iconic), bez originalnosti. (various references)

Spanish		poco original. (various references)

Turkish		orijinal olmayan, başlangıçta olmayan. (various references)

Ukrainian		неоригінальний (imitative), запозичений (adopted, second hand). (various references)

Vietnamese		không phải l� gốc, không chính không phải l� nguyên bản không độc đáo, không đầu tiên. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-u"
	-2 letters: inguinal, oliguria, original.
	-3 letters: alining, grunion, ingrain, inuring, ironing, lairing, languor, ligroin, linuron, loaning, louring, nailing, nurling, railing, raining, roiling, ruining.
	-4 letters: ailing, airing, anilin, annuli, giaour, gloria, guanin, inulin, langur, lanugo, lignin, lingua, lining, longan, lungan, luring, nilgai, nilgau, nounal, oaring, oiling, onagri, origan, origin, ourang, riling, rugola, ruling, unnail, urinal.
	-5 letters: aioli.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-u"
	+2 letters: fluorinating, journalizing, urinogenital.
	+3 letters: reinoculating, triangulation.
	+4 letters: countervailing, noncirculating, triangulations.
	+5 letters: configurational, counterclaiming.
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