Crossword-Solution: ORIGINAL 8 letters, 176 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Original a. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all
others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original
state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of
a process.
Original a. Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine;
as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of
Scripture.
Original a. Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations
of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
Original a. Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of
original matter.
Original n. Origin; commencement; source.
Original n. That which precedes all others of its class; archetype;
first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the
like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.
Original n. An original thinker or writer; an originator.
Original n. A person of marked eccentricity.
Original n. The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or
cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to
be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.

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ORIGINAL anagram GRAINOIL

We have 176 clues for the answer “ORIGINAL”

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Art more valuable than a print 1 answer
Copy source 1 answer
Cover's opposite 1 answer
Far from trite 1 answer
Fresh and new 1 answer
Fresh and unusual 1 answer
Inspiring copies 1 answer
Intial 1 answer
Like musicals not based on preexisting IPs 1 answer
Master copy 1 answer
Much-copied item. 1 answer
Never-before-done 1 answer
Not a copy 1 answer
Not a reproduction. 1 answer
Not an adaptation. 1 answer
Not an imitation 1 answer
Not imitative 1 answer
Person of marked individuality 1 answer
Request at KFC 1 answer
Request at KFC, perhaps 1 answer
Something that gets copied 1 answer
Type of sin 1 answer
Unchanged or novel 1 answer
Unlike a tribute band's repertoire 1 answer
first or earliest 1 answer
Nonconformist – initial 1 answer
One’s entirely genuine – first 1 answer
KFC option 2 answers
Not trite 2 answers
Not seen before 2 answers
Not copied 2 answers
Existing from the beginning 2 answers
something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies 2 answers
Never seen before 3 answers
EXTRAORDINARY in person 3 answers
First-hand. 3 answers
primigenial 3 answers
Not a fake 4 answers
Copier insert 4 answers
First in a series 7 answers
Groundbreaking 8 answers
AN IMAGINATIVE ORCHESTRAL IDIOM 10 answers
archetypal 10 answers
Primeval 11 answers
BE IMAGINATIVE 12 answers
earliest 14 answers
One of a kind? 16 answers
aborigine 18 answers
Prototype 18 answers
inventor 18 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ORIGINAL (5)

Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ’d Thir dread Commander: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear’d Less then Arch Angel ruind, and th’ excess Of Glory obscur’d: As when the Sun new ris’n Looks through the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of his Beams, or from behind the Moon In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On half the Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Note that this version of Thesaurus-1911 has been supplemented with over 1,000 words not present in the original 1911 edition, but many modern words are still missing.
Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991
The year in parentheses indicates when an acceding nation was voted to full consultative (voting) status, while no date indicates an original 1959 treaty signatory.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
She was a misty shape, and well she might be, considering that her original was at that moment sound asleep and oblivious of all love and letter-writing under the sky.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The original and more potent causes, however, lay in the rare perfection of his animal nature, the moderate proportion of intellect, and the very trifling admixture of moral and spiritual ingredients; these latter qualities, indeed, being in barely enough measure to keep the old gentleman from walking on all-fours.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with ORIGINAL (3)

Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's something you've made your own, something for you to be remembered by, something that, perhaps years later, your children and grandchildren can visit and get a view of your life in. It's part of your creativity, your hard work... it's your property. Now suppose you decide to go camping for…
Rebecca McNutt
The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting Tennyson, and the next he would be discussing the best way to blow up a train.
Ben Macintyre Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.
Michael Foley The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 56 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).