commenced

[kuh-menst] / kəˈmɛnst /

ADJECTIVE

originated

Synonyms

STRONG

begun created started

ADJECTIVE

present

Synonyms

STRONGEST

current

STRONG

begun being coeval contemporary instant modern nowadays prompt started today

WEAK

ad hoc already at this moment contemporaneous even now existent extant for the time being going on immediate in duration in process just now present-day topical under consideration up-to-date

Antonyms

STRONG

late old

WEAK

far former future past previous

ADJECTIVE

present-day

Synonyms

STRONGEST

contemporary modern

WEAK

ad hoc already at this moment begun being coeval contemporaneous current even now existent existing extant for the time being going on immediate in duration in process instant just now new now nowadays prompt started today topical under consideration up-to-date

Antonyms

STRONGEST

old old-fashioned

ADJECTIVE

started

Synonyms

STRONGEST

initiated

STRONG

evoked instituted

ADJECTIVE

underway

Synonyms

STRONGEST

afoot ongoing

WEAK

advancing begun in progress initiated moving started undertaken

Antonyms

WEAK

halted stopped

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Recommenced our journey up the river at 8 a.m.; after travelling four or five miles, I turned off to obtain a view of Mounts Collicott, Cottrill, and Solomon....

From A Source Book of Australian History by Swinburne, Gwendolen H.

commenced

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