| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | borrowed, transmitted from source |
| Synonyms: | acquired, ancestral, caused, cognate, coming from, connate, copied, evolved, hereditary, imitative, inferential, inferred, not original, obtained, plagiaristic, plagiarized, procured, rehashed, secondary, secondhand, subordinate, uninventive, unoriginal |
| Antonyms: | inventive, original, unborrowed, unique |
| Main Entry: | unimaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, predictable |
| Synonyms: | banal, barren, bromidic, common, commonplace, derivative, dime a dozen, dry, dull as dishwater, flat, hackneyed, ho hum, lifeless, matter-of-fact, ordinary, pabulum, pedestrian, prosaic, routine, square*, tame, tedious, trite, uncreative, uninspired, unoriginal, unromantic, usual, vanilla, well-worn, zero* |
| Antonyms: | creative, imaginative, original |
| Main Entry: | supplemental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | additional |
| Synonyms: | adscititious, auxiliary, derivative, supporting |
| Main Entry: | unoriginal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not original |
| Synonyms: | conventional, counterfeit, derivative, imitative, musty, predictable, shopworn, stereotype, timeworn, trite, unimaginative |
| Antonyms: | original |
| Main Entry: | traceable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | capable of being traced |
| Synonyms: | accountable, ascribable, attributable, derivative, detectable, identifiable, referable, trackable, verifiable |
| Main Entry: | simulated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake |
| Synonyms: | artificial, assumed, counterfeit, derivative, factitious, fictitious, imitated, imitation, manmade, phony, sham, synthetic |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real |