Inaugurate Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-ôgyə-rāt, -gə-
To admit formally into membership or office, as with ritual
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. induct
  2. initiate
  3. install
  4. kick off
  5. instate
  6. invest
Antonyms:
  1. close
  2. end
  3. adjourn
  4. stop
  5. uninstall
To go about the initial step in doing (something)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. begin
  2. start
  3. initiate
  4. introduce
  5. commence
  6. institute
  7. launch
  8. open
  9. usher in
  10. originate
  11. undertake
  12. approach
  13. embark
  14. enter
  15. auspicate
  16. get off
  17. found
  18. lead off
  19. induct
  20. set about
  21. install
  22. set out
  23. set to
  24. take on
  25. invest
  26. take up
  27. kick off
To cause to begin, especially officially or formally:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. begin
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. initiatory
  2. introductory

Inaugurate Sentence Examples

  • The consequences of this blow were momentous; it may be said to inaugurate the ghetto period.

  • The Society of St Vincent de Paul was founded by Frederic Ozanam and others in 1833, in reply to a charge brought by some free-thinking contemporaries that the church no longer had the strength to inaugurate a practical enterprise.

  • The year 1533 was to inaugurate the new era; Strassburg was to be the seat of the New Jerusalem.

  • She helped to inaugurate the society for the prevention of cruelty to children, and was a keen supporter of the ragged school union.

  • It was not, however, until March 1901 that Milner, who resigned his governorship of Cape Colony, arrived at Pretoria to inaugurate a civil administration.

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