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Original vs Underived - What's the difference?

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Original is a related term of underived.


As a noun original

is original.

As an adjective underived is

not derived, not related.

original

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 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, […].}}
  • (label) Newly created.
  • (label) Fresh, different.
  • (label) Pioneering.
  • (label) Having as its origin.

    • Synonyms

    * (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy * derivative * reproduction * simile

    Derived terms

    * originally * original sin

    Related terms

    * origin * originality * originate * originative * aboriginal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
    • This manuscript is the original
  • A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
    • You’re an original
  • (archaic) An eccentric

    • Synonyms

    * autograph * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy * remake * reproduction

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    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • not derived, not related.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1742, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=If their rights are inherent and underived , they may, by their own suffrages, encircle, with a diadem, the brows of Mr. Cushing. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1859, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Firstly,--if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?" }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Surendranath Dasgupta, title=A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Thus it is that though contact of the senses with the objects may later on be imagined to be the conditioning factor, yet the rise of knowledge as well as our notion of its validity strikes us as original, underived , immediate, and first-hand. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=December 2, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=The Sound of German, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=He held that everything in existence is composed of four underived and indestructible substances--fire, water, earth, and air--and that atmosphere is a corporeal substance, not a mere void. }}