Word Meanings - INITIATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INITIATIVE)

• Introduction
• Induction
• importation
• leading
• taking
• presentation
• insertion
• commencement
• preliminary
• preface
• initiative
• portico
• vestibule
• entrance
• gate
• preamble
• prelude
• Lead
• Priority
• pre-eminence
• guidance
• control
• Lenitive
• Palliative
• soothing
• Prefatory
• Introductory
• preclusive
• antecedent
• prevenient
• proemial

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INITIATIVE)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to INITIATIVE)

• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• PALLIATIVE
  Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• PRECLUSIVE
  Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering. -- Pre*clu"sive*ly, adv.
• PROEMIAL
  Introductory; prefatory; preliminary. Hammond.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• ANTECEDENT
  1. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. 2. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. Syn. -- Prior; previous; foregoing.
• INDUCTION
  The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached. Induction is an inference drawn from all the particulars. Sir W. Hamilton.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• PREFATORY
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks. That prefatory addition to the Creed. Dryden.
• SOOTHNESS
  Truth; reality. Chaucer.
• LEADED
  Separated by leads, as the lines of a page. (more info) 1. Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.
• INDUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or proceeding by, induction; inductive.
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• LENITIVENESS
  The quality of being lenitive.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• NONPRESENTATION
  Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• RINGLEADER
  1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
• PLEADINGLY
  In a pleading manner.
• ENTERPLEAD
  See INTERPLEAD