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| NOUN: | 1. A person who is appealingly odd or curious: character, oddity. Informal : card, oddball. See USUAL. 2. A first form from which varieties arise or imitations are made: archetype, father, master, protoplast, prototype. See START. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Not counterfeit or copied: actual, authentic, bona fide, genuine, good, indubitable, real, true, undoubted, unquestionable. See TRUE. 2. Preceding all others in time: earliest, first, initial, maiden, pioneer, primary, prime, primordial. See START. 3. Characterized by or productive of new things or new ideas: creative, ingenious, innovative, innovatory, inventive. See ABILITY. 4. Not the same as what was previously known or done: different, fresh, innovative, inventive, new, newfangled, novel, unfamiliar, unprecedented. See NEW. 5. Not derived from something else: primary, prime, primitive. See START. 6. Arising from or going to the root or source: basal, basic, foundational, fundamental, primary, radical, underlying. See SURFACE.
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