original

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noun

VERB + ORIGINAL

▪ pass sth off as

▪

He copied paintings of famous artists and passed them off as originals.

PREPOSITION

▪ in the original

▪

to read Tolstoy in the original

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adj.

VERBS

▪ be

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ highly, startlingly (esp. BrE), truly

▪

She has a highly original mind.

▪

a startlingly original idea

▪ completely

▪

They are tackling the problem in a completely original way.

Original is used with these nouns: ↑aim, ↑art, ↑beam, ↑blueprint, ↑building, ↑cast, ↑character, ↑composition, ↑concept, ↑conception, ↑condition, ↑content, ↑context, ↑contract, ↑copy, ↑design, ↑diagnosis, ↑document, ↑draft, ↑drawing, ↑edition, ↑ending, ↑estimate, ↑expectation, ↑feature, ↑finding, ↑fitting, ↑fixture, ↑form, ↑founder, ↑function, ↑homeland, ↑idea, ↑impetus, ↑impulse, ↑incarnation, ↑inhabitant, ↑insight, ↑intention, ↑interior, ↑investment, ↑invoice, ↑language, ↑manuscript, ↑material, ↑meaning, ↑member, ↑motivation, ↑name, ↑negative, ↑novel, ↑occupant, ↑owner, ↑packaging, ↑painting, ↑piece, ↑plan, ↑position, ↑post, ↑posting, ↑production, ↑projection, ↑proposal, ↑purpose, ↑receipt, ↑recipe, ↑recording, ↑report, ↑request, ↑research, ↑ruling, ↑score, ↑script, ↑series, ↑settler, ↑shape, ↑show, ↑signatory, ↑sin, ↑sketch, ↑song, ↑soundtrack, ↑source, ↑specification, ↑spelling, ↑splendour, ↑story, ↑study, ↑style, ↑tale, ↑tape, ↑text, ↑thinker, ↑thinking, ↑thought, ↑title, ↑track, ↑version, ↑wording, ↑work