nonnovel

adjective

non·​nov·​el ˌnän-ˈnä-vəl 

: not new, original, or striking : not novel

… in a line drawing, the novel part or parts may be drawn in full lines, with nonnovel part or parts shown in dotted lines.

—John Grant et al.

Examples of nonnovel in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And in their assessment of the link between novel moves and better-quality decisions, Shin and his colleagues found that before AlphaGo succeeded against human players, humans’ novel moves contributed less to good-quality decisions, on average, than nonnovel moves. —Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined above