Synonyms of begun

begun

verb

past participle of begin

1

as in commenced

to take the first step in (a process or course of action)

she began walking to work for exercise

Synonyms & Similar Words

• commenced
• started
• launched
• fallen (to)
• embarked (on or upon)
• set about
• entered (into or upon)
• opened
• got to
• struck (into)
• created
• got off
• got going
• led off
• initiated
• adopted
• originated
• generated
• invented
• kicked off
• inaugurated
• instituted
• founded
• established
• pioneered
• organized
• spawned
• taken on
• taken up
• innovated
• embraced
• fathered
• set up
• got down (to)
• got around (to)
• got round (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ended
• finished
• concluded
• ceased
• stopped
• terminated
• completed
• halted
• discontinued
• laid off
• closed
• quit
• left
• abandoned
• desisted
• destroyed
• abolished
• knocked off
• extinguished
• demolished
• forsaken
• exterminated
• phased out

2

as in started

to come into existence

the storm began late in the day and lasted all night

Synonyms & Similar Words

• started
• originated
• commenced
• arisen
• been
• appeared
• arrived
• formed
• existed
• dawned
• lived
• set in
• sprung
• materialized
• engendered
• emerged
• broken
• actualized
• lasted
• continued
• breathed
• survived
• subsisted
• persisted
• come on
• endured
• coalesced
• shaped (up)
• cohered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stopped
• ceased
• ended
• concluded
• finished
• halted
• terminated
• discontinued
• disappeared
• quit
• died
• dissolved
• vanished
• evaporated
• desisted
• departed
• expired
• perished
• passed away

3

as in founded

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of

the religious sect was begun by a small breakaway faction

Synonyms & Similar Words

• founded
• initiated
• constituted
• established
• pioneered
• instituted
• launched
• started
• inaugurated
• created
• introduced
• organized
• originated
• financed
• planted
• funded
• innovated
• set up
• devised
• constructed
• invented
• produced
• authored
• conceived
• developed
• manufactured
• thought (up)
• enlarged
• made up
• expanded
• concocted
• fathered
• contrived
• cooked (up)
• fabricated
• arranged
• subsidized
• relaunched
• endowed
• systematized
• reinitiated
• reinstituted
• refounded
• systemized
• put up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closed (down)
• shut (up)
• stopped
• ended
• finished
• abolished
• halted
• terminated
• phased out
• annulled
• nullified
• annihilated
• rounded (off or out)
• wrapped up
• wound up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of begun

Joby Aviation has begun piloted electric air taxi flights across Florida, testing how the aircraft could operate between airports and other locations as the state works toward building a network for future aerial transportation. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026

And the White House confirmed that discussions with the franchise had begun. — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 31 Oct. 2026

With a list of missing people and a pile of dead bodies, the community of Fairhaven has only begun to emerge from the chaos of Jurek’s terror. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026

While midday crowds throng under a brilliant sky on Milan’s Piazza del Duomo, darkness gathers behind the windows of the nearby Palazzo Reale, where the vernissage for a major Francis Picabia retrospective has just begun. — Nicole Kaack, ARTnews.com, 30 Oct. 2026

The year of 2023 had just begun when Brown, 34, went to the Boulevard Nights club with a relative. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026

The new decade had begun with a deadly pandemic and racial justice movement, which had each morphed into dizzying culture wars mined by political actors seeking power. — David MacK, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026

Reid starts questioning whether to accept his next assignment which will take him far away from the people and center that have begun to feel like home. — Rachel Labonte, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026

Molina will play Sebastian, the formidable head of Ascent Ventures who has begun to consider which of his top agents might succeed him. — Denise Petski, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026