Original vs. Initial

Originaladjective

(not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.

Originaladjective

(not comparable) First in a series or copies/versions.

Originaladjective

(not comparable) Newly created.

Originaladjective

(comparable) Fresh, different.

Originaladjective

(not comparable) Pioneering.

Originaladjective

(not comparable) Having as its origin.

Originalnoun

An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.

Originalnoun

A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent.

Originalnoun

(archaic) An eccentric.

Originaladjective

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.

Originaladjective

Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.

Originaladjective

Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.

Originaladjective

Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.

Originalnoun

Origin; commencement; source.

Originalnoun

That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.

Originalnoun

An original thinker or writer; an originator.

Originalnoun

A person of marked eccentricity.

Originalnoun

The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.

Originalnoun

an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made

Originalnoun

an original model on which something is patterned

Originaladjective

preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed;

Originaladjective

(of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary;

Originaladjective

being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of;

Originaladjective

not derived or copied or translated from something else;

Originaladjective

present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest

Originaladjective

created personally by a particular artist, writer, musician, etc.; not a copy

Originaladjective

not dependent on other people's ideas; inventive or novel

Originalnoun

the earliest form of something, from which copies may be made

Originalnoun

the language in which something was first written

Originalnoun

a person or place on which a character or location in a literary work is based

Originalnoun

a book or recording that has not been previously made available in a different form

Originalnoun

a garment made to order from a design specially prepared for a fashion collection

Originalnoun

an eccentric or unusual person

Initialadjective

Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.

Initialadjective

Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.

Initialnoun

The first letter of a word or a name.

Initialnoun

In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit.

Initialnoun

A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.

Initialnoun

(phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.

Initialverb

(transitive) To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.

Initialadjective

Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

Initialadjective

Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.

Initialnoun

The first letter of a word or a name.

Initialverb

To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.

Initialnoun

the first letter of a word (especially a person's name);

Initialverb

mark with one's initials

Initialadjective

occurring at the beginning;

Initial

In a written or published work, an initial or drop cap is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is derived from the Latin initialis, which means standing at the beginning.