UNORIGINAL Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

unoriginal

adjective

ˌən-ə-ˈrj-jə-nᵊl

Definition of unoriginal

as in imitative

using or marked by the use of something else as a basis or model critics faulted the novel for having a painfully unoriginal plot

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Recent Examples of unoriginal Other artists copied his style, which at first the artist considered flattering but later saw it as unoriginal as his popularity grew. — Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2026 The film's trailer looked unoriginal and uninteresting. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026 The rhetoric justifying their presence and exonerating their violence is loud and unoriginal, echoing the way Chicago has long been spoken about, when it is spoken about, as a war zone in need of saving from itself. — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2025 The first stage began in July 2025, when Meta announced comprehensive measures targeting accounts that repeatedly share unoriginal content without meaningful enhancement, building on enforcement actions that had already been taken against 500,000 accounts in the first half of the year. — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for unoriginal

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The word is likely imitative (onomatopoeic), echoing the sound of heavy breathing during sleep.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Since then, whenever new tools to crank out communications have become available, somebody has flooded the zone with the fastest, most imitative material that could garner attention.

— Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025

Definition of imitative

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