UNORIGINAL Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

unoriginal

adjective

ˌən-ə-ˈrj-jə-nᵊl

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 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 In sales, trust is currency, and nothing burns trust faster than sounding unoriginal, lazy or shady. —

Don Markland, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 If your content is flagged as unoriginal or spammy, Facebook may stop showing it in people's feeds. —

Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2025 These are deeply unoriginal ideas about the future. —

Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for unoriginal

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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
It may be borrowed or coined, named after a person, inspired by a place or imitative of a sound.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025