belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning

The book still has its original binding.

new; fresh; inventive; novel

an original way of advertising.

arising or proceeding independently of anything else

an original view of history.

capable of or given to thinking or acting in an independent, creative, or individual manner

an original thinker.

created, undertaken, or presented for the first time

to give the original performance of a string quartet.

being something from which a copy, a translation, or the like is made

The original document is in Washington.

a primary form or type from which varieties are derived.

an original work, writing, or the like, as opposed to any copy or imitation

The original of this is in the British Museum.

the person or thing represented by a picture, description, etc.

The original is said to have been the painter's own house.

a person whose ways of thinking or acting are original

In a field of brilliant technicians he is a true original.

Archaic . an eccentric person.

Archaic . a source of being; an author or originator.

adjective

derivative , latest , newest , borrowed , hackneyed , old , used , worn , copied

noun

creation , derivative , offshoot

adjective

aboriginal , archetypal , authentic , autochthonous , beginning , commencing , early , elementary , embryonic , first , first-hand , genuine , inceptive , infant , initial , introductory , opening , pioneer , primary , prime , primeval , primitive , primordial , pristine , prototypal , rudimental , rudimentary , starting , underivative , underived , avant garde , breaking new ground , causal , causative , conceiving , creative , demiurgic , devising , envisioning , fertile , formative , generative , imaginative , ingenious , innovational , innovative , innovatory , inspiring , inventive , novel , originative , productive , quick , ready , resourceful , seminal , sensitive , unconventional , unprecedented , untried , unusual , earliest , maiden , basal , basic , foundational , fundamental , underlying , actual , bona fide , good , indubitable , real , true , undoubted , unquestionable , different , fresh , newfangled , unfamiliar , endemic , fontal , genetic , germinal , germinative , indigenous , native , neoteric , primogenial , primogenital , protogenic

noun

archetype , coinage , creation , exemplar , forerunner , invention , model , novelty , paradigm , pattern , precedent , precursor , type , anomaly , card * , case * , character , eccentric , nonconformist , oddball , oddity , queer , weirdo * , father , master , protoplast , prototype , aboriginal , archetypal , authentic , creative , earliest , ectype , first , first generation , fresh , freshness , fundamental , genuine , ingenuity , initial , innovative , inventive , inventiveness , naissance , native , neoteric , newness , novel , origin , originality , pioneer , primal , primary , primeval , primitive , primordial , pristine , unique