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| Main Entry: | onset |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; attack |
| Synonyms: | access, aggression, assault, birth, charge, commencement, dawn, encounter, inception, kickoff*, offense, offensive, onrush, onslaught, opening, origin, outbreak, outset, rush, seizure, start, assailment, dawning, incipience, onfall, outstart |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | advent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning or arrival of something anticipated |
| Synonyms: | appearance, approach, arrival, coming, entrance, occurrence, onset, visitation |
| Antonyms: | departure, end |
| Main Entry: | assault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggression, charge, incursion, invasion, offensive, onset, onslaught, rape, storm, strike, violation, storming |
| Notes: | to assail a task is to approach it with the intent of mastering it, from Latin salire 'to leap'; assault is also based on this word and assail and assault can be synonyms assault is an attempt or threat to do physical harm while battery is unjustified application of force; assault and battery is carrying out of threatened physical harm or violence |
| Main Entry: | commencement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ceremony marking the beginning of stage |
| Synonyms: | admission, alpha, birth, bow, celebration, convocation, countdown, dawn, genesis, graduation, initiation, kickoff*, onset, opening, outset, proem, start, curtain-raiser, dawning, opener, services, starting point, tee off |
| Antonyms: | cessation, completion, end, ending, finish, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | offensive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack |
| Synonyms: | aggression, assault, drive, invasion, onset, onslaught, push, assailment |
| Antonyms: | defensive, defending |
| Main Entry: | onslaught |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack |
| Synonyms: | aggression, assault, blitz, charge, incursion, invasion, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, assailment, onfall |
| Antonyms: | defense |
| Main Entry: | outbreak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden happening |
| Synonyms: | beginning, blowup, brawl, break, breaking, burst, bursting, commencement, commotion, convulsion, crack, crash, dawn, detonation, discharge, disorder, disruption, effervescence, epidemic, eruption, explosion, fit, flare-up, flash, fury, gush, gushing, insurrection, irruption, mutiny, onset, outburst, outpouring, paroxysm, plague, rebellion, revolution, roar, sally, sortie, spasm, spurt, storm, surge, thunder, tumult, uprising, volley, ebullition, rending, sundering |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, finale |
| Main Entry: | raid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack, seizure |
| Synonyms: | arrest, assault, bust, capture, descent, foray, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, onset, onslaught, pull, reconnaissance, roundup, sally*, sortie*, sweep, break-in, forced entrance, hit-and-run, shootup, surprise attack, tipover |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | source |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; point of supply |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, author, authority, authorship, begetter, birthplace, cause, commencement, connection, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, expert, father, fount, fountain, fountainhead, horse's mouth, inception, informant, maternity, mother, onset, opening, origin, origination, originator, parent, paternity, provenance, provenience, rise, rising, root, specialist, spring, start, starting point, wellspring |
| Antonyms: | effect, end, result |
| Main Entry: | aggression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack, often military |
| Synonyms: | assault, blitz, encroachment, injury, invasion, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, push, raid, assailment, blitzkrieg |
| Main Entry: | attack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical assault |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggression, barrage, blitz, charge, defilement, drive, encounter, encroachment, foray, incursion, initiative, inroad, intervention, intrusion, invasion, irruption, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, outbreak, push, raid, rape, rush, skirmish, strike, thrust, violation, volley, assailing, assailment, blitzkrieg, dirty deed, mugging, storming |
| Antonyms: | aid, defense, flight, protection, resistance, retreat, shelter, shield, support, surrender, sustenance |
| Main Entry: | battle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | military fight |
| Synonyms: | action, assault, attack, barrage, bloodshed, bombing, brush, campaign, carnage, clash, combat, conflict, contention, crusade, encounter, engagement, fighting, fray, havoc, hostility, onset, onslaught, press, ravage, scrimmage, skirmish, sortie, strife, struggle, war, warfare, blitzkreig, significant contact |
| Antonyms: | truce |
| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | start of an event or action |
| Synonyms: | alpha, basis, birth, commencement, creation, dawn, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, source, spring, square one*, takeoff, threshold, top, blastoff, dawning, day one, opener, point of departure, rudiment, starting point |
| Antonyms: | completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fast race for short distance |
| Synonyms: | bolt, dart, haste, onset, run, rush, sortie, sprint, spurt, zip, birr |
| Main Entry: | push |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical force |
| Synonyms: | advance, assault, attack, bearing, blow, butt, charge, drive, driving, effort, energy, exertion, impact, jolt, lean, mass, nudge, offensive, onset, poke, prod, propulsion, shove, thrust, weight, exerting, forcing, shoving, straining, thrusting |
| Antonyms: | pull |
| Main Entry: | start |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | alpha*, birth, bow, commencement, countdown, dawn, derivation, exit, flying start*, foundation, inauguration, inception, initiation, kickoff*, onset, opening, origin, outset, source, spring, square one*, takeoff, dawning, day one, embarkation, first step, jump-off, leaving, running start, setting out, start-off |
| Antonyms: | completion, conclusion, death, end, ending, finish, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | birth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | commencement, dawn, emergence, fountainhead, genesis, onset, opening, origin, outset, rise, source, start, dawning |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, death, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack |
| Synonyms: | assault, blitz, invasion, onset, onslaught, outbreak, push, rush, sortie, blitzkrieg, mugging |
| Antonyms: | retreat |
| Main Entry: | dawn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a beginning |
| Synonyms: | advent, alpha, birth, commencement, emergence, foundation, genesis, head, inception, onset, opening, origin, outset, rise, source, start, dawning, outstart, unfolding |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | offense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insult, displeasure |
| Synonyms: | affront, aggression, assault, attack, battery, black eye*, blitz*, dig*, harm, hit*, hurt, indignation, indignity, injury, injustice, left-handed compliment*, onset, onslaught, outrage, push*, put-down*, slam*, slight, snub, assailment, blitzkrieg, dirty dig, mugging, slap in the face, zinger |
| Antonyms: | kindness, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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