unoriginal
Adjective
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Not original;
Not being or productive of something fresh and unusual (synset 301692724)"the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"also:- conventional - following accepted customs and proprieties
- uncreative - not creative
- stale - lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
- secondary - being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
tells us about: originality - the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)similar to:- banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn - repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous - dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
- cliched, ready-made - repeated regularly without thought or originality
- cold, dusty, moth-eaten, stale - lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- slavish - blindly imitative
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