Launch Synonyms and Antonyms

lônch, länch
To go about the initial step in doing (something)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. start
  2. approach
  3. begin
  4. commence
  5. embark
  6. enter
  7. get off
  8. inaugurate
  9. initiate
  10. institute
  11. lead off
  12. open
  13. set about
  14. set out
  15. set to
  16. take on
  17. take up
  18. undertake
  19. kick off
To initiate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. start
  2. originate
  3. introduce
  4. plunge
  5. set going
Antonyms:
  1. end
  2. stop
  3. cease
  4. finish
An act of throwing
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. motorboat
  2. cast
  3. fling
  4. heave
  5. cabin-cruiser
  6. hurl
  7. pitch
  8. launching
  9. shy
  10. sling
  11. ship's launch
  12. throw
  13. toss
The act or process of bringing or being brought into existence
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. start
  2. beginning
  3. commencement
  4. inauguration
  5. inception
  6. incipience
  7. incipiency
  8. initiation
  9. leadoff
  10. opening
  11. origination
  12. kickoff
Get going; give impetus to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. set-in-motion
To set going; initiate:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. begin

Words Related to Launch

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Launch Sentence Examples

  • He'd gone still, like a panther about to launch itself.

  • When close to he was detected, but he had time to drive the steam launch over the baulks and to explode the torpedo against the "Albemarle" with such success that a hole was made in her and she sank.

  • She hugged her knees, ready to launch the next question.

  • Lieutenant Bligh, approaching them in the launch of the "Bounty," 1789, had a hostile encounter with natives.

  • It was not into this gap, which had no military significance, but upon the isolated divisions of the 1st Army that the Russian general proposed to launch his counterstroke.

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