Dictionary Entry
initial
initial is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.
- 2adjective
Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.
- 3noun
The first letter of a word or a name.
- 4transitive verb
To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.
- 5noun
the first letter of a word (especially a person's name)
"he refused to put the initials FRS after his name"
- 6verb
mark with one's initials
- 7adjective
occurring at the beginning
"took the initial step toward reconciliation"
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