Definitions for originals

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originals o·rig·i·nal

Spelling: [uh-rij-uh-nl]

IPA: /əˈrɪdʒ ə nl/

Originals is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 510 anagrams from letters in originals (agiilnors).

Definitions for originals

noun

1. a primary form or type from which varieties are derived.
2. an original work, writing, or the like, as opposed to any copy or imitation:
3. the person or thing represented by a picture, description, etc.:
4. a person whose ways of thinking or acting are original:
5. Archaic. an eccentric person.
6. Archaic. a source of being; an author or originator.

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning:
2. new; fresh; inventive; novel:
3. arising or proceeding independently of anything else:
4. capable of or given to thinking or acting in an independent, creative, or individual manner:
5. created, undertaken, or presented for the first time:
6. being something from which a copy, a translation, or the like is made:

Origin of originals

1300-50; Middle English Latin orīginālis (adj.) and Medieval Latin orīgināle original document (noun use of neuter adj.), equivalent to orīgin- (see origin) + -ālis

Examples for originals

It is as easy to be unoriginal as it is hard at times to be original.

Alec Nevala-Lee says the result is vague and unoriginal, yet somehow still comforting.

Your most grating acquaintance could – and usually would – bombard you with reams of unoriginal drivel at the press of a key.

And so on—respectable answers, unoriginal but having the sanction of history, of just and generous minds.

That simple, and unoriginal, fear lies at heart of The Crisis of Zionism.

But the style of most of them is unoriginal, being merely an echo of that of the English Lake School.

Even her catchphrases came across as empty and unoriginal.

Yet one would be loath to approve his arguments, unoriginal as they are.

He would return a purse, I am sure, upon discovering that he had obtained it by an unoriginal diddle.

The advertising writer is the most unoriginal creature imaginable.