Synonyms for first
Another word for first is first-year, early or front. Below are 46 synonyms and 17 related words across 12 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: firsts.
1. adjective: preceding all others in time or space or degree
- first-year
- early synonyms
- front synonyms
- original synonyms
- basic synonyms
- primary synonyms
- prime synonyms
- initial
- premier synonyms
- premiere
- freshman synonyms
- eldest
- introductory synonyms
- firstborn
- archetypal
- ordinal
- prototypical
- archetypical
- prototypic
- prototypal
Antonyms
2. adjective: highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
Antonyms
3. adjective: serving to begin
- beginning synonyms
- opening synonyms
4. adjective: ranking above all others
- world-class
- foremost synonyms
- best synonyms
5. adjective: serving to set in motion
- initiative synonyms
- maiden synonyms
- inaugural synonyms
- initiatory
- opening synonyms
6. noun: the first or highest in an ordering or series
- number one
7. noun: the first element in a countable series
- number one
8. noun: the time at which something is supposed to begin
- get-go synonyms
- start synonyms
- starting time synonyms
- beginning synonyms
- offset synonyms
- commencement synonyms
- outset synonyms
- kickoff synonyms
- showtime
9. noun: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- first base
10. noun: an honours degree of the highest class
- first-class honours degree
11. noun: the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- low synonyms
- first gear
- low gear
12. adverb: before anything else
- first of all
- first off
- foremost synonyms
- firstly
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- former synonyms
- rank synonyms
- ordinal number
- point synonyms
- point in time
- starting point
- birth synonyms
- threshold synonyms
- terminus a quo
- incipience
- incipiency
- position synonyms
- double first
- honours
- honours degree
- gear synonyms
- gear mechanism
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Questions people ask
What is another word for first?
You can say first-year, early, front, original or basic instead of first. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "preceding all others in time or space or degree".
What is the opposite of first?
The opposite of first is last or second.
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