What is another word for initiative?
Synonyms for initiative
ɪˈnɪʃ i ə tɪv, ɪˈnɪʃ ə-ini·tia·tive
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Wiktionary
initiativenoun
Antonyms:
noninitiativeinitiativenoun
In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.
Antonyms:
noninitiativeinitiativenoun
An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
Synonyms:
direct initiative
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
initiative
Synonyms:
start, leadership, commencement, exampleAntonyms:
wake, rear, prosecution, termination
Princeton's WordNet
enterprise, enterprisingness, initiative, go-aheadnoun
readiness to embark on bold new ventures
Synonyms:
opening move, endeavour, endeavor, go-ahead, enterprisingness, opening, first step, green light, enterpriseAntonyms:
closingfirst step, initiative, opening move, openingadjective
the first of a series of actions
Synonyms:
possibility, opening move, opening night, chess opening, curtain raising, go-ahead, hatchway, scuttle, opening, enterprisingness, gap, first step, orifice, enterprise, possible action, portaAntonyms:
closinginaugural, 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, inaugural, foremost, first, beginning(a), world-classAntonyms:
closing
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
initiativeadjective
Synonyms:
inceptive, initiatoryinitiativenoun
Synonyms:
beginning, first step
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "initiative":
initiatives, own-initiative, 'initiative, hdi, lead, project, fai, iniciativa, effort, instigation, psi, apci, endeavour, move
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#83 | first | |
#288 | project | |
#474 | start | |
#583 | example | |
#1142 | move | |
#1176 | lead | |
#1460 | enterprise | |
#1992 | effort | |
#2231 | leadership | |
#2265 | opening | |
#3455 | initiative | |
#4114 | gap | |
#4175 | possibility | |
#4319 | initiatives | |
#8802 | psi | |
#9922 | maiden | |
#11293 | commencement | |
#14599 | foremost | |
#16219 | endeavor | |
#17451 | inaugural | |
#18303 | endeavour | |
#27549 | porta | |
#28283 | fai | |
#37481 | orifice | |
#39404 | hdi | |
#70897 | scuttle | |
#88460 | instigation | |
#104335 | iniciativa | |
#188541 | initiatory | |
#192255 | apci | |
#228653 | hatchway |
How to use initiative in a sentence?
The map of how very hot days is going to affect India is shifting, and more states in the south will be affected. You don’t want to wait for an extreme event, a disaster, before an initiative gets replicated there.
The immediate goal is to try to persuade people … that western-style republicanism – which was supported by United States – is a failure, and that the PRC's policy of Belt and Road Initiative, and the new international order that it wants to create, is superior to what United States tried to create after 20 years in Afghanistan.
I think it's a wonderful thing, it is a very new and good thing for someone who has authority to take initiative with his action.
The push for an export tax will intensify after the election, which is likely to see the empowering of the Frente Guasu, a major proponent of the initiative, and a party which is expected to substantially increase its presence in Congress.
If The Sun Cable initiative comes off, The Sun Cable initiative would be really The Sun Cable initiative.
Translations for initiative
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- مبادرةArabic
- iniciativaCatalan, Valencian
- iniciativaCzech
- InitiativeGerman
- πρωτοβουλίαGreek
- iniciativasSpanish
- aloitteellisuus, aloite, aloitekyky, oma-aloitteisuusFinnish
- initiativeFrench
- पहलHindi
- iniziativaItalian
- יוזמהHebrew
- イニシアチブJapanese
- initiatiefDutch
- initiativNorwegian
- inițiativăRomanian
- инициативаRussian
- inicijatívaSerbo-Croatian
- iniciatívaSlovak
- initiativSwedish
- איניציאַטיווYiddish
- 主動Chinese
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