Synonyms of get-go

get-go

noun

ˈgit-ˌgō 

variants also git-go

as in beginning

the point at which something begins

from the get-go, their relationship was tumultuous and doomed to fail

Synonyms & Similar Words

• beginning
• start
• inception
• onset
• alpha
• commencement
• outset
• launch
• genesis
• baseline
• dawn
• infancy
• morning
• threshold
• birth
• day one
• kickoff
• nascency
• nascence
• incipiency
• origination
• incipience
• inauguration
• origin
• founding
• initiation
• first base
• arrival
• drawing board
• spring
• creation
• well
• source
• opening
• institution
• emergence
• germ
• debut
• ground zero
• fountain
• childhood
• dawning
• cradle
• square one
• advent
• root
• appearance
• wellspring
• youth
• fountainhead
• seedbed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• end
• conclusion
• ending
• close
• period
• completion
• finish
• stop
• closing
• termination
• omega
• closure
• cessation
• finale
• windup

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of get-go

An inmate’s seemingly clever plan to escape jail via the visitation room ceiling – after meeting with his attorney – proved to be botched from get-go, according to investigators in North Carolina. —Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 24 Mar. 2026

One argument is that this is a preposterous proposition at the get-go. —Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026

Holland was respected from almost the get-go. —John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025

But don't, in your headline, slam me at the get-go. —Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Nov. 2025