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Common collocations with original in American Collocation

original adjective

US /əˈrɪdʒən(ə)l/

very or completely

completely
entirely
genuinely
highly
hugely
totally
truly
utterly
wholly
wildly

Steve has developed a highly original songwriting style.

in a surprising or exciting way

amazingly
breathtakingly
powerfully
remarkably
startlingly
strikingly
stunningly
thrillingly

It is a work of great poetic beauty, written in a startlingly original voice.

in a good way

brilliantly
fantastically
refreshingly
wonderfully

This is the most refreshingly original book about British politics that I have read for some time.

not very

hardly
not terribly

While the plot isn’t terribly original, the central characters are interesting.