Synonyms for inaugural
ɪnˈɔ gyər əl, -gər əlin·au·gu·ral

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1. inaugural address, inauguralnoun

   an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president)

   Synonyms:
   inauguration, inaugural address

   Antonyms:
   closing, exaugural, valedictory

2. inauguration, inauguraladjective

   the ceremonial induction into a position

   "the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration"

   Synonyms:
   inauguration, inaugural address, startup

   Antonyms:
   exaugural, valedictory, closing

3. inauguraladjective

   occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction

   "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball"

   Synonyms:
   maiden, initiatory, first, initiative

   Antonyms:
   valedictory, exaugural, closing

4. inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first, maidenadjective

   serving to set in motion

   "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"

   Synonyms:
   initiatory, maiden, initiative, foremost, first, beginning(a), world-class

   Antonyms:
   exaugural, closing, valedictory

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1. List of paraphrases for "inaugural":

   opening, maiden, inauguration, investiture, first, editorial, constitutive, founding, introductory, keynote

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1. Mark Updegrove:

   Many of these items have particular historical significance -- the dress worn to an inauguration ceremony or the gown worn to an inaugural ball, for example.

2. Kevin McCarthys:

   They scaled walls, they brought ropes. A couple of protesters died because they scaled. And when you have the inaugural, there was scaffolding. They were scaling the scaffolding. They, they overtook the place.

3. Judge Ruben Castillo:

   Given the amount, it's nonsensical to think this was this defendant's inaugural voyage into cocaine trafficking.

4. Michele Bachmann:

   The first time I ever came to this city was to dance at the inaugural ball for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale! Which is kind of hard to believe. But then I saw how their policies worked out, they were a complete and utter failure, and then that's why I became a Republican, and I never looked back.

5. Smithsonian Magazine:

   The Tin Can Tourists, named because they heated tin cans of food on gasoline stoves by the roadside, formed the first camping club in the United States, holding their inaugural rally in Florida in 1919 and growing to 150,000 members by the mid-1930s.