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To help you avoid using the same word too repetitively, redundantly, recurrently, incessantly, etc., etc.

Why synonyms can be useful

Your writing can sound boring if you continually keep repeating the same words. When you create sentences, you can make them more interesting by using words that mean the same as the word you are speaking about. This allows you to add flavor to your writing.

In order to make language a lot more expressive and interesting you should try to vary the words you use as often as you can.

Synonyms for (adjective) unoriginal

Synonyms: unoriginal Definition: not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual Usage: the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations; his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern- Gwethalyn Graham

Hypernyms: trite, timeworn, tired, stock, threadbare, old-hat, hackneyed, commonplace, banal, shopworn, well-worn Definition: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse Usage: bromidic sermons; his remarks were trite and commonplace; hackneyed phrases; a stock answer; repeating threadbare jokes; parroting some timeworn axiom; the trite metaphor `hard as nails'

Hypernyms: bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous, corny Definition: dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality Usage: bromidic sermons

Hypernyms: ready-made, cliched Definition: repeated regularly without thought or originality Usage: ready-made phrases

Hypernyms: cold, dusty, moth-eaten, stale Definition: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new Usage: moth-eaten theories about race; stale news

Hypernyms: slavish Definition: blindly imitative Usage: a slavish copy of the original