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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simulated, unoriginal |
| Synonyms: | artful, copied, copycat, copying, counterfeit, deceptive, derivative, echoic, emulative, emulous, following, forged, mimetic, mimic, mimicking, mock, onomatopoeic, parrot, plagiarized, pseudo*, put-on, reflecting, reflective, secondhand, sham*, simulant |
| Antonyms: | different, genuine, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | derivative |
| 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: | mock |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artificial, fake |
| Synonyms: | apish, bogus*, counterfeit, dummy, ersatz*, faked, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hokey, imitation, imitative, make-believe, mimic, phony, pretended, pseudo*, put-on, quasi, sham*, simulated, so-called, spurious, substitute, unreal |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | threadbare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trite, corny |
| Synonyms: | banal, bathetic, cliché, cliché-ridden, clichéd, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, everyday, familiar, hackneyed, imitative, moth-eaten, musty, overused, poor, set, stale, stereotyped, stock, tedious, tired, uncreative, well-worn, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | fresh, unused, unworn |
| Main Entry: | slavish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking originality |
| Synonyms: | boring, dull, faithful, imitative, uninspired |
| 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: | slavish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | servile |
| Synonyms: | abject, bond, dependent, groveling, hard, imitative, menial, obsequious, oppressive, submissive, subservient, uninspired, unoriginal |
| Antonyms: | assertive, independent |
| Main Entry: | derivational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | derivative |
| Synonyms: | borrowed, copied, derived, imitative, unoriginal |
| Main Entry: | derived |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | derivative |
| Synonyms: | borrowed, copied, derivational, imitative, unoriginal |
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