Inimitable vs Original - What's the difference?
inimitable | original |
Beyond imitation, surpassing all others, matchless.
(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
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, title= (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (label) Newly created.
(label) Fresh, different.
(label) Pioneering.
(label) Having as its origin.
An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
(archaic) An eccentric
As adjectives the difference between inimitable and original
is that inimitable is beyond imitation, surpassing all others, matchless while original is relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.As a noun original is
an object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.inimitable
English
Adjective
Usage notes
Not to be confused with .Derived terms
* inimitability * inimitablyAntonyms
* imitable * commonplaceSee also
* illimitable ----original
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
Synonyms
* (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototypeAntonyms
* copy * derivative * reproduction * simileDerived terms
* originally * original sinNoun
(en noun)- This manuscript is the original
- You’re an original