Synonyms: master, master copy, original
Definition: an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
Similar words: creation
Definition: an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone
Synonyms: original, archetype, pilot
Definition: something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
Usage: this painting is a copy of the original
Definition: a representative form or pattern
Usage: I profited from his example
Synonyms: original
Definition: not derived or copied or translated from something else
Usage: the play is original; not an adaptation; he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox; the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French
Similar words: underived
Definition: not derived; primary or simple
Synonyms: original
Definition: preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed
Usage: the original inhabitants of the Americas; the book still has its original binding; restored the house to its original condition; the original performance of the opera; the original cast; retracted his original statement
Similar words: first
Definition: preceding all others in time or space or degree
Usage: the first house on the right; the first day of spring; his first political race; her first baby; the first time; the first meetings of the new party; the first phase of his training
Synonyms: original
Definition: being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of
Usage: a truly original approach; with original music; an original mind
Similar words: avant-garde, daring
Definition: radically new or original
Usage: an avant-garde theater piece
Similar words: freehand, freehanded
Definition: done by hand without mechanical aids or devices
Usage: a freehand drawing
Similar words: fresh, new, novel
Definition: original and of a kind not seen before
Usage: the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem
Similar words: originative, germinal, seminal
Definition: containing seeds of later development
Usage: seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another
Similar words: groundbreaking, innovational, innovative
Definition: being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before
Usage: stylistically innovative works; innovative members of the artistic community; a mind so innovational, so original
Similar words: new, newfangled
Definition: (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new
Usage: newfangled ideas; she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them
Similar words: underivative
Definition: not derivative or imitative
Usage: a natural underivative poet
Synonyms: original
Definition: (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary
Usage: his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources
Similar words: primary
Definition: of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
Usage: primary goals; a primary effect; primary sources; a primary interest