unoriginal

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person or work that does not exhibit originality.
    — Ahmad (1969) studied the personality differences among middle school girls identified as originals and unoriginals on the Minnesota's test of creative thinking.
形容词 adj.
  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.
  2. Not being the first or earliest version of something, not original. rare
    — 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. Without an origin or source. obsolete
    — [I] plung’d in the womb Of unoriginal Night and Chaos wilde,

词形变化

more unoriginal comparative most unoriginal superlative unoriginals plural

词汇关系

衍生词
unoriginality unoriginally

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English original
English unoriginal
From un- + original.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English original
English unoriginal
From un- + original.
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