novel
Not seen before
Novel is more than a book-length fictional story.
Indeed, it’s more than a noun.
As an adjective, novel means new, with an emphasis originality, as in a novel approach to ending homelessness.
Abstractions, such as ideas, approaches, methods, and concepts are most likely to be characterized as novel.
Story's central figure
- antagonistOne who opposes another
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- narrativeAccount of events
- chaptersMain divisions of text
prologue · epilogue · climax · denouement · setting · theme · dialogue · prose
Rigid-bound book format
- paperbackBook with flexible cover
- authorCreator of written works
- publisherCompany releasing books
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
bestseller · edition · ISBN · bookstore · library · print · preface · blurb
Not previously known
- unprecedentedNever having occurred before
- innovativeIntroducing new ideas
- originalFirst or inventive
- freshNewly made, not stale
unconventional · groundbreaking · unheard-of · untried · pioneering · experimental · inventive · cutting-edge
protagonist
Story's central figure
- antagonistOne who opposes another
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- narrativeAccount of events
chapters · prologue · epilogue · climax · denouement · setting · theme · dialogue · prose · suspense
hardcover
Rigid-bound book format
manuscript · bestseller · edition · ISBN · bookstore · library · print · preface · blurb · readership
unfamiliar
Not previously known
- unprecedentedNever having occurred before
- innovativeIntroducing new ideas
- originalFirst or inventive
fresh · unconventional · groundbreaking · unheard-of · untried · pioneering · experimental · inventive · cutting-edge · revolutionary
mystery
Something unexplained or unknown
- thrillerSuspense-driven narrative genre
- romanceLove and its excitement
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
science-fiction · historical · literary · gothic · dystopian · detective · horror · adventure · western · satirical
- bookstextbooks, study guides, book, paperback, hardcover
- creative worksbooks, autobiography, memoir, diary, journal
- fictionfiction, short story, fairy tales, fables, literary fiction
- NovelsTo Kill a Mockingbird, Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre
- readingfluency, read, comprehension, readers, books
- storiesstory, tale, tales, myth, legend
novelhackneyed
Overused and unoriginal
stale · trite · unoriginal · derivative · worn
novelold
Existing many years
ancient · age-old · time-honored · long-established · venerable
novelconventional
Following accepted practices
traditional · standard · established · customary · usual
- Victorian novel1837-1901 British long-form fiction
- romance novelistAuthor of love stories
- mystery novelFiction solving a crime
- graphic novelBook-length illustrated sequential narrative
- detective novelFiction solving a crime
- novelty actEntertainment through strangeness
novice, novelty, novelist, renovate, novels, innovate, novella, novelists, nova