originally

Adverb

Meaning

In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation.

At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

start initially earlier primitively in the first place at first in the beginning innovatively firstly first early original once beginning former
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

consequently secondly lastly after end last
Show all antonyms

Related terms

original origin

Phrases with the word

originally called originally named these differences being such as either originally andon the ground of their etymology inhered in them earlier than originally planned originally known as originally referred to as

Examples

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. Dave Barry

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected. Mark Zuckerberg

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest. Ambrose Bierce

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. George Mason

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Close letter words and terms

originalistically originality originall originally called originally known as originally named