Word Meanings - INITIATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INITIATIVE)
- Introduction
- Induction
- importation
- leading
- taking
- presentation
- insertion
- commencement
- preliminary
- preface
- initiative
- portico
- vestibule
- entrance
- gate
- preamble
- prelude
- Lead
- Priority
- pre-eminence
- guidance
- control
- Lenitive
- Palliative
- soothing
- Prefatory
- Introductory
- preclusive
- antecedent
- prevenient
- proemial
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INITIATIVE)
Related words: (words related to INITIATIVE)
- PRELUDE
An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with - PRELUDER
One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason. - LEADING EDGE
same as Advancing edge, above. - TAKING
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n. - MISMANAGER
One who manages ill. - PALLIATIVE
Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate. - CONTROLLABLENESS
Capability of being controlled. - PRECLUSIVE
Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering. -- Pre*clu"sive*ly, adv. - PROEMIAL
Introductory; prefatory; preliminary. Hammond. - CONTROLLABILITY
Capability of being controlled; controllableness. - TAKE
Taken. Chaucer. - ANTECEDENT
1. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. 2. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. Syn. -- Prior; previous; foregoing. - INDUCTION
The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached. Induction is an inference drawn from all the particulars. Sir W. Hamilton. - TAKE-OFF
An imitation, especially in the way of caricature. - PREFATORY
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks. That prefatory addition to the Creed. Dryden. - SOOTHNESS
Truth; reality. Chaucer. - LEADED
Separated by leads, as the lines of a page. (more info) 1. Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows. - INDUCTIONAL
Pertaining to, or proceeding by, induction; inductive. - MISCONDUCT
Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense. - LENITIVENESS
The quality of being lenitive. - UNMISTAKABLE
Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv. - POT LEAD
Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction. - LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - COUNTERPLEAD
To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny. - MISTAKING
An error; a mistake. Shak. - PLEADINGS
The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some - PROTUBERATE
To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp. - NONPRESENTATION
Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented. - RINGLEADER
1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of - MISTAKINGLY
Erroneously. - PLEADINGLY
In a pleading manner. - ENTERPLEAD
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