unoriginal

a. 非原先的, 无独创精神的, 模仿的, 抄袭的

词形变化

unoriginals 复数 unoriginals more unoriginal 比较级 most unoriginal 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person or work that does not exhibit originality.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Lacking originality.

    1758, William Hawkins, Tracts in Divinity, Oxford, Volume 2, Letter 12 [on Pope’ translations of Homer], pp. 418-419, Redundancies are as unoriginal as Insipidities, and the Spirit of an Author may be as much overwhelmed in Exuberance on the one Hand, as it evaporates in Frigidity on the other.

    2008, André Brink, Other Lives, Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, “Mirror,” Chapter 8, p. 185, “Stories come from other stories.” “Then there is no originality anywhere.” “Does it matter? Perhaps our very idea of originality is overrated. And unoriginal.”

  2. 2.

    Not being the first or earliest version of something, not original.

    罕用

    1894, Joseph Jacobs (editor), More Celtic Fairy Tales, London: David Nutt, Notes and References, “The Leeching of Kayn’s Leg,” p. 232, [This tale] occurs in an MS. of the fifteenth century in an obviously unoriginal form which shows that the story-teller did not appreciate the significance of many features in the folk-tale he was retelling […]

  3. 3.

    Without an origin or source.

    废旧

词汇关系

形容词

反义词 1

original

近义相关 10

cold tired stock dusty corny stale banal commonplace trite ready-made

参见 4

secondary conventional stale uncreative

词源

From un- + original.

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