initially en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /ɪˈnɪʃəli/
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ɪˈnɪʃli/
Etymology
Etymology tree English initial Middle English -ly English -ly English initially From initial + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) At the beginning.
Unsurprisingly, the Group was highly critical of the BTC's organisation and finances, and this prompted Marples to bring forward the Transport Act 1962, which created BR as a standalone entity with its own Board, headed by a full-time chairman. Beeching accepted this latter position, and initially became the BTC chairman in June 1961.
2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:Initially, I found city life incredibly difficult, but now I'm used to it.
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2022, page 6:
- (not-comparable) Relating to initials.
Antonyms
Relateds
beginning · early · betimes · early doors · early on · earlily
Synonyms
in the first place · initially · originally · at first · to begin with · to start with
Translations (37)
gd sa chiad dol a-mach (at the beginning) · ru первонача́льно (at the beginning) · cmn 最初 (at the beginning) · th ตอนแรก (at the beginning) · sw mwanzo (at the beginning) · bg отначало (at the beginning) · gd an toiseach (at the beginning) · sv inledningsvis (at the beginning) · fr au début (at the beginning) · fr initialement (at the beginning) · ko 처음에 (at the beginning) · nl aanvankelijk (at the beginning) · ru изнача́льно (at the beginning) · eo komence (at the beginning) · ja 始めに (at the beginning) · gl inicialmente (at the beginning) · de zunächst (at the beginning) · pl początkowo (at the beginning) · fi aluksi (at the beginning) · es inicialmente (at the beginning) · ru снача́ла (at the beginning) · es al comienzo (at the beginning) · cmn 起初 (at the beginning) · fr au commencement (at the beginning) · fi alun perin (at the beginning) · sah бастаан (at the beginning) · oc inicialament (at the beginning) · grc τὴν ἀρχὴν (at the beginning) · es al inicio (at the beginning) · es en un principio (at the beginning) · ru внача́ле (at the beginning) · es al principio (at the beginning) · ba башта (at the beginning) · pt inicialmente (at the beginning) · bg първоначално (at the beginning) · mnc ᡨᡠᡴᡨᠠᠨ (at the beginning) · de anfangs (at the beginning)