unoriginate

Examples

• All

• The eternal generation of the Son by the nature of the Father's self-diffusive goodness is a necessary generation. To say that the Son is generated per modum naturae is to say that the Father's self-diffusive goodness is not a "free choice"; rather, goodness constitutes the person of the Father who is unoriginate and fecund.

  Academic text (2007)

• Her idea for the project was criticized as being unoriginal, lacking any sense of unoriginate creativity.

• The film received harsh reviews for its unoriginate plot that followed the same clichés as many others.

Synonyms

S

sterile

vsunoriginate

23 6.2

Not showing new ideas or creative thinking

highlights mere absence of novelty rather than failure to produce

B

banal

vsunoriginate

21 7.2

Used so often that it feels boring

means lacking novelty but adds the sense of being boring from overuse

U

unremarkable

vsunoriginate

20 3.5

Being ordinary and not interesting

denotes lack of novelty more than plain ordinariness

U

uninspired

vsunoriginate

14 4.0

Not having new or interesting ideas

is concerned with not being new rather than with mood or energy

U

unimaginative

vsunoriginate

9 4.2

Does not show creativity or new ideas

covers lack of novelty broadly, not only lack of imagination

U

unoriginal

vsunoriginate

8 3.4

Not new or creative like ideas you have heard before

is the broad label for not being new or inventive

U

unexceptional

vsunoriginate

3 4.4

Not special or impressive, just ordinary

focuses on not being new rather than only being typical

U

uncreative

vsunoriginate

2 4.3

Not having new ideas or ways of doing things

focuses on absence of inventiveness rather than full unoriginality

U

uninventive

vsunoriginate

1 5.8

Not showing new ideas or imagination

is a general lack of novelty rather than specific creative failure

I

indistinctive

vsunoriginate

1 7.2

Not having clear features that make it different

refers to not being new rather than merely not standing out

U

uninvented

vsunoriginate

8.2

Showing no original ideas or creativity

is the wider term for absence of novelty or inventiveness

N

nonoriginal

vsunoriginate

5.0

Not new and made as a copy of another thing

emphasizes simple absence of newness rather than active copying

B

bromidic

vsunoriginate

9.9

Boring because it uses words or ideas people hear many times

is simply not new without implying cliché or overuse

N

nondistinctive

vsunoriginate

6.1

Not having features that make it stand out

is about absence of novelty rather than lack of distinguishing features

U

undistinctive

vsunoriginate

5.6

Lacking special features that make it stand out

means not inventive or novel rather than only being undistinguished

How Original

inventive

40 3.8

novel

72 5.1

original

250 3.6

unoriginate

8.6

derivative

26 7.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology