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| Main Entry: | start |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flinch |
| Synonyms: | blanch, blench, bolt, bounce, bound, buck, dart, draw back, jerk, jump, jump the gun, leap, quail, recoil, shrink, shy, spring, squinch, startle, twitch, wince |
| Antonyms: | ignore |
| Main Entry: | advantage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benefit, favored position or circumstance |
| Synonyms: | aid, ascendancy, asset, assistance, authority, avail, blessing, boon, break, choice, comfort, convenience, dominance, edge, eminence, expediency, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leg-up, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, pre-eminence, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand, utility, wealth |
| Notes: | advantage is a relatively favorable position; superiority of means while vantage is a position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, drawback, handicap, hindrance, loss, obstacle, restriction |
| Main Entry: | introductory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | preliminary, first |
| Synonyms: | anterior, basic, beginning, early, elementary, inaugural, incipient, inductive, initial, initiatory, opening, original, precursory, prefatory, prelusive, preparative, preparatory, primary, prior, proemial, provisional, rudimentary, starting |
| Antonyms: | concluding, ending, final, finishing, last |
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earliest |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, archetypal, authentic, autochthonous, beginning, commencing, early, elementary, embryonic, first, first-hand, genuine, inceptive, infant, initial, introductory, opening, pioneer, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, prototypal, rudimental, rudimentary, starting, underivative, underived |
| Antonyms: | derivative, latest, newest |
| Main Entry: | establishing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the act of founding |
| Synonyms: | beginning, building, chartering, constituting, endowing, fixing, founding, implementing, inaugurating, initiating, instituting, organizing, originating, regulating, setting up, settling, stabilizing, starting, subsidizing |
| Antonyms: | dissolving, ending, tearing down |
| Main Entry: | originating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rising |
| Synonyms: | activated, arising, authored, beginning, begot, caused, commencing, created, dawning, deriving, emanating, fashioned, formed, generated, incepted, induced, inspired, issuing, made, motivated, produced, starting |
| Main Entry: | prolegomenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | introductory |
| Synonyms: | anterior, basic, beginning, early, elementary, inaugural, incipient, inductive, initial, initiatory, opening, original*, precursory, prefatory, preliminary, prelusive, preparative, preparatory, primary, prior, proemial, provisional, rudimentary, starting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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