kickoff

Synonyms

alpha, baseline, beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go (also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold;

Antonyms

close, conclusion, end, ending, omega;

Near Antonyms

cessation, closing, closure, completion, finale, finish, period, stop, termination, windup;

Related Words

drawing board, first base, ground zero, square one;

creation, founding, inauguration, initiation, institution, origination;

cradle, fountain, fountainhead, germ, origin, root, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspring;

dawning, opening;

advent, appearance, arrival, debut (also début), emergence;

childhood, infancy, youth;

Synonyms

begin, commence, embark (on or upon), enter (into or upon), fall (to), get off, launch, lead off, open, start, strike (into);

Antonyms

conclude, end, finish, terminate;

Near Antonyms

cease, desist, discontinue, halt, knock off, lay off, quit, stop;

close, complete;

abandon, forsake, leave;

abolish, demolish, destroy, exterminate, extinguish, phase out;

Related Words

create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate;

adopt, embrace, take on, take up;

establish, father, found, institute, organize, pioneer, set up, spawn;

get around (to), get down (to), get round (to);

Phrases

get going, get to, set about;