original

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. Source: opted

2. a. Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture. Source: opted

3. a. Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius. Source: opted

4. a. Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter. Source: opted

5. n. Origin; commencement; source. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

7. n. An original thinker or writer; an originator. Source: opted

8. n. A person of marked eccentricity. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

10. adj. preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed Source: wordnet

11. adj. (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary Source: wordnet

12. adj. being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of Source: wordnet

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