Thesaurus: original

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1. a. 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.
2. a. Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
3. a. Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
4. a. Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.
5. n. Origin; commencement; source.
6. n. That which class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/precedes">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.
7. n. An original thinker or writer; an originator.
8. n. A person of marked eccentricity.
9. n. 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.
10. adj. preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed
11. adj. (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary
12. adj. being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of