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original
Part of speech: AdjectiveOf or pertaining to the beginning, or first state; as, original sin; not copied; as, an original painting; able to create or invent that which is new; as, an original writer.
Part of speech: NounThat from which anything is copied; the language in which a translated work was written; an unusual person.
Part of speech: Adverb Usage examples "original":- " Miss Remsen, you think that is one of the original set. - "An Artist in Crime", Rodrigues Ottolengui.
- The Comanaches and the Yellow Dogs had been enemies so long that nobody knew what the original quarrel had been about. - "Dusty Star", Olaf Baker.
- The notion of this young man working at it up here all by himself, just because he was away an hour or two from the original, touched him. - "The Dark Flower", John Galsworthy.