| unoriginal | | |
| adj. | 1. unoriginal | 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" |
| ~ conventional | following accepted customs and proprieties.; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" |
| ~ uncreative | not creative.; "an uncreative imagination" |
| ~ stale | lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age.; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale" |
| ~ banal, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, shopworn, tired, well-worn, commonplace | repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" |
| ~ corny, platitudinal, platitudinous, bromidic | dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality.; "bromidic sermons" |
| ~ cliched, ready-made | repeated regularly without thought or originality.; "ready-made phrases" |
| ~ dusty, stale, moth-eaten, cold | lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new.; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news" |
| ~ slavish | blindly imitative.; "a slavish copy of the original" |
| ~ secondary | being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate.; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams" |
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