original

original [adj1] earliest aboriginal, archetypal, authentic, autochthonous, beginning, commencing, early, elementary, embryonic, first, first-hand, genuine, inceptive, infant, initial, introductory, opening, pioneer, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, prototypal, rudimental, rudimentary, starting, underivative, underived; concepts 549,585 —Ant. derivative, latest, newest original [adj2] fresh, new avant garde, breaking new ground*, causal, causative, conceiving, creative, demiurgic, devising, envisioning, fertile, formative, generative, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspiring, inventive, novel, originative, productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal, sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried, unusual; concepts 578,589,797 —Ant. borrowed, hackneyed, old, used, worn original [n1] standard, prototype archetype, coinage, creation, exemplar, forerunner, invention, model, novelty, paradigm, pattern, precedent, precursor, type; concepts 260,686 —Ant. creation, derivative, offshoot original [n2] person who is eccentric anomaly, card*, case*, character, eccentric, nonconformist, oddball, oddity, queer, weirdo*; concept 423