Synonyms of inaugurating

inaugurating

verb

present participle of inaugurate

1

as in establishing

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

inaugurated the college's athletic program for women

Synonyms & Similar Words

• establishing
• founding
• initiating
• pioneering
• launching
• introducing
• creating
• instituting
• beginning
• constituting
• constructing
• planting
• starting
• organizing
• originating
• innovating
• inventing
• developing
• devising
• producing
• authoring
• setting up
• manufacturing
• expanding
• conceiving
• enlarging
• thinking (up)
• concocting
• endowing
• cooking (up)
• fathering
• arranging
• contriving
• subsidizing
• financing
• funding
• making up
• fabricating
• relaunching
• systematizing
• reinstituting
• reinitiating
• refounding
• putting up
• systemizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closing (down)
• abolishing
• shutting (up)
• phasing out
• ending
• finishing
• stopping
• terminating
• halting
• annulling
• nullifying
• annihilating
• winding up
• rounding (off or out)
• wrapping up

2

as in inducting

to put into an office or welcome into an organization with special ceremonies

the president inaugurated the newest member of the club with a welcoming speech

Synonyms & Similar Words

• inducting
• installing
• initiating
• instating
• baptizing
• seating
• receiving
• investing
• consecrating
• accepting
• enlisting
• enrolling
• admitting
• enshrining
• taking in
• swearing in

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• terminating
• firing
• discharging
• canning
• mustering out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of inaugurating

The French leader and others were inaugurating a statue honoring Capt. — Masha MacPherson, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026

Britain’s oppression invited the people to take charge of their government, inaugurating a period of broader political participation. — T. H. Breen, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026

Kim has moved quickly to capitalize, pouring investment into modernizing his capital and inaugurating one tourist resort after another. — Stella Kim, NBC news, 8 June 2026

In 1958, liberals and conservatives reached an agreement to alternate power, inaugurating the period known as the National Front. — Roberto Andrés, The Dial, 28 May 2026

The brand is also inaugurating a partnership with Foster Love, a nonprofit for children in foster care. — James Manso, Footwear News, 27 May 2026

Recorded at Glendale’s UHF Studio, Davis worked closely with producer-bassist Dan Horne and guitarist John Lee Shannon, inaugurating a new songwriting partnership—one that trades the solitary melancholia of her earlier albums for something more open-ended and conversational. — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026

This program collects two mid-length documentaries by Raymond Depardon from the mid-1970s, inaugurating a career-spanning interest in former French colonial Africa. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2026

ChatGPT passed that benchmark earlier this year, inaugurating a new technological era, though not necessarily one of superhuman intelligence. — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025