Synonyms for lead off
- early
- aboriginal
- antecedent
- anterior
- basic
- beginning
- cardinal
- front
- fundamental
- head
- inaugural
- initial
- key
- leading
- least
- opening
- original
- pioneer
- premier
- primary
- prime
- primitive
- ahead
- elementary
- first off
- headmost
- in the beginning
- inceptive
- incipient
- introductory
- number one
- numero uno
- primeval
- primogenial
- primordial
- pristine
- right up front
- rudimentary
- slightest
- smallest
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Antonyms for lead off
- additional
- auxiliary
- ending
- extra
- final
- following
- inessential
- inferior
- insignificant
- last
- minor
- nonessential
- secondary
- subordinate
- trivial
- unimportant
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WORD ORIGIN
c.1300, "action of leading," from lead (v.1). Meaning "the front or leading place" is from 1560s. Johnson stigmatized it as "a low, despicable word." Sense in card-playing is from 1742; in theater, from 1831; in journalism, from 1912; in jazz bands, from 1934.
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