Dictionary Entry
original
original is a 8-letter English word with 15 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.
- 2adjective
Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
- 3adjective
Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
- 4adjective
Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.
- 5noun
Origin; commencement; source.
- 6noun
That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.
- 7noun
An original thinker or writer; an originator.
- 8noun
A person of marked eccentricity.
- 9noun
The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.
- 10noun
an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
Synonyms
- 11noun
something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
"this painting is a copy of the original"
- 12adjective
not derived or copied or translated from something else
"the play is original; not an adaptation"
"he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"
- 13adjective
preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed
"the original inhabitants of the Americas"
"the book still has its original binding"
- 14adjective
being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of
"a truly original approach"
"with original music"
- 15adjective
(of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary
"his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources"
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