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to begin with

  • as inoriginally
  • as infirst
  • as infor openers
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Synonyms for to begin with

adv initially
  • basically
  • formerly
  • primitively
  • at first
  • at the outset
  • at the start
  • by birth
  • by origin
  • first
  • in the beginning
  • in the first place
  • incipiently
  • primarily
  • to begin with

Antonyms for to begin with

  • secondarily
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

More words related to to begin with

first

adverb. at the beginning
  • at the outset
  • before all else
  • beforehand
  • in the first place
  • initially
  • originally
  • to begin with
  • to start with

for openers

adverb. as a beginning

originally

adverb. initially
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.