Synonyms of launch

launch 1 of 2

verb

ˈlȯnch 

1

as in to establish

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

after retiring, he launched a small company devoted to making medical devices

Synonyms & Similar Words

• establish
• initiate
• pioneer
• introduce
• found
• create
• institute
• inaugurate
• begin
• start
• plant
• constitute
• construct
• organize
• innovate
• develop
• originate
• set up
• author
• invent
• produce
• devise
• manufacture
• conceive
• fund
• expand
• think (up)
• cook (up)
• finance
• make up
• relaunch
• concoct
• father
• subsidize
• enlarge
• arrange
• fabricate
• endow
• contrive
• systematize
• reinitiate
• put up
• reinstitute
• systemize
• refound

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• shut (up)
• close (down)
• end
• stop
• abolish
• finish
• nullify
• annul
• terminate
• phase out
• halt
• annihilate
• wind up
• round (off or out)
• wrap up

2

as in to begin

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

she launched a career in journalism after quitting acting school

Synonyms & Similar Words

• begin
• commence
• start
• open
• fall (to)
• found
• get going
• create
• enter (into or upon)
• strike (into)
• get off
• embark (on or upon)
• set about
• initiate
• get to
• lead off
• generate
• inaugurate
• organize
• adopt
• establish
• invent
• kick off
• originate
• institute
• pioneer
• innovate
• take up
• spawn
• take on
• embrace
• get around (to)
• get down (to)
• set up
• father
• get round (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• end
• finish
• terminate
• stop
• conclude
• cease
• complete
• halt
• discontinue
• quit
• close
• leave
• lay off
• abandon
• destroy
• desist
• abolish
• extinguish
• knock off
• forsake
• phase out
• exterminate
• demolish

3

as in to throw

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm

infantrymen launching grenades at the nest of machine gunners

Synonyms & Similar Words

• throw
• hurl
• toss
• fling
• sling
• fire
• catapult
• let fly
• cast
• heave
• pitch
• chuck
• lob
• dash
• hurtle
• flip
• loft
• peg
• pelt
• gun
• bowl
• dart
• roll
• project
• propel
• thrust
• shoot
• precipitate
• eject
• pass
• hook
• rifle
• impel
• buck

launch

2 of 2

noun

1

as in takeoff

a rising from a surface at the start of a flight (as of a rocket)

the reporters held their collective breath as they silently watched the space shuttle's launch

Synonyms & Similar Words

• takeoff
• liftoff
• blastoff
• ascent

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• landing
• crash
• splashdown

2

as in start

the point at which something begins

we are at the launch of a new age of space exploration

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of launch

Verb

Mason said police have launched a joint investigation with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, whose trappers captured and killed the animal. — Julie Carr Smyth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026

On fourth-and-1 from the Indiana 38, Sayin launched a play-action pass toward the end zone, and Smith leaped over everyone else to haul it in for a 38-yard touchdown that put Ohio State up 19-7. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Noun

Chanel hosted a cozy cocktail hour at The Twenty Two New York on Thursday for the launch of their new Originators program with The Women’s Prize Trust to support emerging female writers. — Brianna J. Heath, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026

The live event follows THR‘s launch this week of its inaugural Animation Power List, which recognizes the most influential executives and talents in animation. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026