original

adj

1. primary, primordial, primigenial, incipient, prime, initial, .first, firsthand; primeval, primal, primitive, pristine, earliest; aboriginal, autochthonal, autochthonous, indigenous, endemic, endemi-cal, native; radical, basic, fundamental, elemental, underlying, underived; intrinsic, inherent, inborn, innate, connate, congenital.

2. novel, new, newfangled, unprecedented, unknown, unheard-of; fresh, young, maiden, virgin, untried; unique, singular, special; rare, peculiar, uncommon, signal, extraordinary, different, unusual, out of the ordinary, Latin, sui generis.

3. creative, seminal, imaginative, ingenious, inventive, resourceful, originative, initiative, institutive; individualistic, independent, self-reliant, self-sufficient, self-contained, autonomous; diverse, divergent, unorthodox, unconventional, nonconforming, unimita-tive, unimitating, unimitated, borrowed, unborrow-ing.

4. prototypal, prototypic, prototypical, protoplastic; archetypal, archetypic, archetypical, exemplary; genuine, authentic, Archaic. authentical, actual, real, true.

n

5. prototype, pattern, archetype, model, exemplar, type, form, mold; ideal, paragon, standard; example, specimen, sample; ancestor, precursor, precedent.

6. creation, ingenuity, breath of fresh air; protoplast, first copy.

7. source, origin, genesis, root, Both Bot. radix, radicle; subject, referent, actuality, the genuine article, the real thing, Sl. the real McCoy.

8. creator, neoteric; originator, mastermind; individualist, independent, eccentric, oddity, Inf. character; freethinker, bohemian, noncomformist, nonpartisan, dissenter, heretic.