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

The likely beneficiary of this initiative would be Vice President JD Vance, who is widely expected to launch a campaign. — ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026

Between Eugenio Suarez becoming a US citizen launching a home run in his first game back, and the return of college football today, who has it better than us right now? — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026

Noun

The head of the company, Elon Musk, kicked off his Cybercab service in Austin on Thursday with fanfare, sending dozens of the futuristic taxis into the city streets and holding a launch event for invitees. — ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026

An invitation-only launch event was expected to be held later Thursday. — Bernard Condon, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026