Original əˈrɪdʒənl I Adjective Room Features Back Plan

• the room still has many of its original features.
• i think you should go back to your original plan.
• at the end of the lease, the land will be returned to the original owner.
• the original stage version of ‘a streetcar named desire’

original

1. existing at the beginning of a particular period, process or activity
• The room still has many of its original features.
• I think you should go back to your original plan.
• At the end of the lease, the land will be returned to the original owner.
• the original stage version of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’
• The original intention was to record about 80 speakers, divided equally between males and females.

Extra Examples

• The clock was restored to its original condition.
• The original findings conflict with more recent findings.
• There have been many new findings since the original report.
2. new and interesting in a way that is different from anything that has existed before; able to produce new and interesting ideas
• an original idea
• That's not a very original suggestion.
• an original thinker
• the product of a highly original mind
• It's a taut, fast-moving detective story with strikingly original characters.
• I don't think this is a truly original idea.
• He believes that he is creating something wholly original.

Extra Examples

• They are tackling the problem in a completely original way.
• The film is challenging and highly original.
3. painted, written, etc. by the artist rather than copied
• an original painting by local artist Graham Tovey
• The original manuscript has been lost.
• Only original documents (= not photocopies) will be accepted as proof of status.

Word Origin

• Middle English (the earliest use being in the phrase original sin): from Old French, or from Latin originalis, from origin-, from oriri ‘to rise’.