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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

unoriginal, formulaic, and often insincere as a consequence, used to describe emotion or expression;

e.g. Her canned responses to the reporters' questions showed that she hadn't given the issue much real thought.

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Apish

Assembly-line

Besotted

Blind

Blinder

Broke

Broken

Cookie-cutter

Cutesy

Discontinued

Dropped

Drunk

Fried

Hammered

Imitative

Impaired

Impersonal

Inebriate

Inebriated

Lit

Loaded

Mimetic

Mimic

Oiled

Pedantic

Pie

Quit

Removed

Retired

Ripped

Slavish

Smashed

Stewed

Stiff

Three

Tight

Uninspired

Unoriginal

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Opposite Words

Abstemious

Advanced

Artful

Authentic

Classic

Clearheaded

Continued

Cool

Creative

Drove

Dry

Enlisted

Genuine

Groundbreaking

Ideal

Imaginative

Innovative

Inventive

Legitimate

Level

Made

Model

Natural

Real

Sober

Steady

Straight

Teetotal

Temperate

True

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Related Words

Aborted

Affected

Alcoholic

Artificial

Assumed

Backup

Banal

Befuddled

Bibulous

Bleary-eyed

Bogus

Broke

Broken

Cobwebby

Contrived

Counterfeit

Crapulous

Cut-and-dried

Deceptive

Degraded

Deprived

Dissipated

Dissolute

Dopey

Factitious

Fake

False

Feigned

Finished

Forced

Forged

Fraudulent

Hack

Hackney

Hackneyed

Imitation

Killed

Man-made

Maudlin

Mechanical

Mock

Moth-eaten

Musty

Obligatory

Perfunctory

Phony

Plastic

Pseudo

Put-on

Rocky

Routine

Sham

Shopworn

Simulated

Spurious

Stale

Stemmed

Stereotyped

Strained

Substitute

Synthetic

Threadbare

Timeworn

Tired

Trite

Uninspired

Unmade

Unnatural

Well-worn

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