| Main Entry: | initiative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eagerness to do something |
Synonyms: |
action, ambition, drive, dynamism, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, get-up-and-go, gumption*, inventiveness, leadership, moxie*, originality, punch, push, resource, resourcefulness, spunk*, steam, vigor |
Antonyms: |
indifference, lethargy |
| Main Entry: | ambition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire for success |
Synonyms: |
appetite, ardor, aspiration, avidity, craving, desire, drive, eagerness, earnestness, emulation, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, fire in belly, get up and go, hankering*, hope, hunger, initiative, itch, keenness, longing, love, lust, moxie*, passion, pretension, push, right stuff, spirit, striving, thirst, vigor, yearning, zeal |
Antonyms: |
apathy, contentment, diffidence, humility, indifference, laziness, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | attack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical assault |
Synonyms: |
advance, aggression, assailing, assailment, barrage, blitz, blitzkrieg, charge, defilement, dirty deed, drive, encounter, encroachment, foray, incursion, initiative, inroad, intervention, intrusion, invasion, irruption, mugging, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, outbreak, push, raid, rape, rush, skirmish, storming, strike, thrust, violation, volley |
Antonyms: |
aid, defense, flight, protection, resistance, retreat, shelter, shield, support, surrender, sustenance |
| Main Entry: | drive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | campaign for cause |
Synonyms: |
action, advance, appeal, crusade, effort, enterprise, get-up-and-go, initiative, push, surge |
| Main Entry: | drive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's will to achieve |
Synonyms: |
ambition, clout, effort, energy, enterprise, fire in belly, get-up-and-go, goods*, gumption*, guts*, impellent, impetus, impulse, initiative, momentum, motivation, motive, moxie*, pep, pressure, punch*, push*, right stuff, spunk*, steam, stuff*, vigor, vitality, what it takes, zip |
| Main Entry: | energy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's spirit and vigor |
Synonyms: |
activity, animation, application, ardor, birr, dash, drive, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, endurance, enterprise, exertion, fire, force, forcefulness, fortitude, get-up-and-go, go, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, operativeness, pep, pizzazz, pluck, potency, power, puissance, punch, spirit, spontaneity, stamina, steam, strength, toughness, tuck, vehemence, verve, vim, virility, vitality, vivacity, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan |
Antonyms: |
idleness, inactivity, laziness, lethargy, tiredness |
| Main Entry: | enterprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resourcefulness, energy |
Synonyms: |
activity, adventurousness, alertness, ambition, audacity, boldness, courage, daring, dash, drive, eagerness, enthusiasm, force, foresight, get-up-and-go, gumption, hustle, industry, initiative, inventiveness, pluck, push, readiness, resource, self-reliance, spirit, venturesomeness, vigor, zeal |
Antonyms: |
apathy, idleness, indolence, passiveness, passivity |
| Main Entry: | incipient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | developing |
Synonyms: |
basic, beginning, commencing, elementary, embryonic, fundamental, inceptive, inchoate, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, nascent, originating, start |
Antonyms: |
developed, grown, mature |
| Main Entry: | initial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beginning, primary |
Synonyms: |
antecedent, basic, commencing, earliest, early, elementary, embryonic, first, foremost, fundamental, germinal, headmost, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, incipient, infant, initiative, initiatory, introductory, leading, nascent, opening, original, pioneer, virgin |
Antonyms: |
closing, final, last |
| Main Entry: | leadership |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guidance |
Synonyms: |
administration, authority, capacity, command, conduction, control, conveyance, direction, directorship, domination, foresight, hegemony, influence, initiative, management, pilotage, power, preeminence, primacy, skill, superintendency, superiority, supremacy, sway |