initial
Meaning of initial
adjective
- existing or occurring at the beginning.
our initial impression was favourable
- the first letter of a name or word, typically a person's given name or a word forming part of a phrase.
they carved their initials into the tree trunk
- mark or sign (a document) with one's initials in order to authorize or validate it.
the man initialled the three warrants
see that your client initials all alterations
early 16th century: from Latin initialis, from initium ‘beginning’, from inire ‘go in’, from in- ‘into’ + ire ‘go’.
Information about initial
- The plural form of initial is: initials.
- Languages in which initial is used:
(Press the button to hear it)
Hyphenation of initial
ini-tial
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- initial is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
initial synonyms
Meaning the point in time or space at which something begins:
Meaning coming at the beginning of something; initial:
Meaning begin:
Meaning begin or be reckoned from a particular point in time or space:
Meaning relating to or marking the beginning of something; initial:
Meaning relating to an embryo:
Meaning a young bird that has just fledged:
Meaning coming before all others in time or order; earliest; 1st:
Meaning belonging or happening near the beginning of a particular period:
Meaning of first importance; main:
Meaning earliest in time or order:
Meaning preceding or done in preparation for something fuller or more important:
Meaning relating to the basic elements of a subject:
Meaning denoting an underlying basis or principle; fundamental:
Meaning serving as or carrying out preparation for a task or undertaking:
Meaning involving or limited to basic principles:
Meaning serving as an introduction to a subject or topic; basic or preliminary:
Meaning marking the beginning of an institution, activity, or period of office:
Meaning (of a person) developing into a specified type or role:
Meaning just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary:
Meaning done as an experiment or test before being introduced more widely:
Meaning a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something, especially before it is taken into widespread use:
Meaning a formal examination of evidence by a judge, typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings:
Meaning a shortened form of a word or phrase:
Meaning an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g. ASCII, NASA ):
Meaning an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately (e.g. BBC ):
Meaning write (one's name) for purposes of identification or authorization:
Meaning add a signature to (a document already signed by another person):
Meaning write one's signature on (something); sign:
Meaning sign (a cheque or bill of exchange) on the back to make it payable to someone other than the stated payee or to accept responsibility for paying it:
Meaning write or carve (words or symbols) on something, especially as a formal or permanent record:
Meaning write or print (an inscription) at the top of or on the outside of a document:
Meaning see (an event, typically a crime or accident) happen:
Meaning sign and accept liability under (an insurance policy), thus guaranteeing payment in case loss or damage occurs:
initial antonyms
Meaning coming at the end of a series:
Translation of initial
- German: Kürzel, Initiale, anfänglich, einleitend, paraphieren, abzeichnen, unterzeichnen
- Portuguese: inicial
- Spanish: inicial, sigla, suscribir
- French: initiale, initial
- Italian: iniziale, sigla
Words that rhyme with initial
abbatial, cardinalatial, circumspatial, curatial, equispatial, hyperspatial, interspatial, nonspatial, palatial, prefatial, prelatial, primatial, spatial, spermatial, temporospatial, unpalatial, unspatial, visuospatial, equinoctial, interequinoctial, trinoctial, fetial, perichaetial, retial, teretial, accrementitial, adventitial, anteinitial, antenatalitial, capillitial, cardinalitial, coinitial, comitial, excrementitial, exitial, factitial, gentilitial, interstitial, lunistitial, natalitial, noninitial, novitial, nutritial, periadventitial, postcomitial, preinitial, primitial, propitial, pyelointerstitial, recrementitial
Are you looking more rhymes for initial? Try our rhymes search engine.