Word Meanings - ORIGINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. His form had yet not lost

Additional info about word: ORIGINAL

1. 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. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. Milton. 2. Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture. 3. Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius. 4. Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter. Original sin , the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; -- called also total depravity. See Calvinism.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ORIGINAL)

• Aboriginal
• Primordial
• primeval
• pristine
• autochthonic
• immemorial
• indigenous
• native
• original
• Authentic
• Genuine
• veritable
• reliable
• real
• trustworthy
• not spurious
• true
• legitimate
• certain
• accepted
• current
• received
• First
• Leading
• primary
• foremost
• primitive
• principal
• highest
• chief
• earliest
• Imaginative
• Creative
• conceptive
• ideal
• poetical
• romantic
• inventive
• Natural
• Intrinsic
• eventual
• regular
• normal
• cosmical
• probable
• consistent
• spontaneous
• unless

Related words: (words related to ORIGINAL)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• INTRINSICAL
  1. Intrinsic. 2. Intimate; closely familiar. Sir H. Wotton.
• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• FOREMOST
  First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army. THat struck the foremost man of all this world. Shak. (more info) superl. of forma first, which is a superl. fr. fore fore; cf. Goth. frumist,
• SPONTANEOUS
  1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• PRIMORDIALLY
  At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• AUTHENTICITY
  1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness. 2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity,
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• ACCEPT
  To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• PRIMITIVENESS
  The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion