first of all

Adverb

Meaning

before anything else

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

firstly first foremost first off first up primarily initially predominantly principally chiefly fundamentally basically above all in the first place in the beginning
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Antonyms

lastly after last behind in the end finally
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Examples

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. Alexander Alekhine

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. Barack Obama

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. Joseph de Maistre

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. Oscar Wilde

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. Jerome

Close letter words and terms

first notice day first objective first occurrence first of all to express First of May first of never