initially

Adverb

Meaning

In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

at first ab initio firstly olla first early original beginning primary start initial before previously primarily originally
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Antonyms

finally secondly lastly after end last
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Phrases with the word

initially set

Examples

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good. Susie Bright

Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history. Edward Snowden

The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have no pattern or order. However, the brain has the ability to process visual information much more efficiently. Tony Buzan

New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape. Robert Muldoon

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece. Madeleine Stowe

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. David Talbot

Close letter words and terms

initialled initialler initialling initially set initialness initials