authentic
English
Adjective
(en adjective )
Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
- The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.
Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
- The report was completely authentic .
- an authentic”’ writer; an ”’authentic”’ portrait; ”’authentic information
(music, of a Gregorian mode) Having the final as the lowest note of the mode.
(obsolete) authoritative
- (Milton)
Synonyms
* (of the claimed origin) genuine, real, bonafide, bona fide, unfaked
* (conforming to fact) reliable, trustworthy, credible, unfaked
Antonyms
* (not of the claimed origin) phony, fake; ingenuine
Derived terms
* authentically
* authenticate
* authentication
* authenticity
* authenticism
* authenticist
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original
English
Adjective
(en adjective )
(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
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*{{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.
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* {{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.
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(label) Fresh, different.
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(label) Pioneering.
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(label) Having as its origin.
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Synonyms
* (first in series ) initial
* autograph
* prototype
Antonyms
* copy
* derivative
* reproduction
* simile
Derived terms
* originally
* original sin
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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