'Inaugural' definitions:
Definition of 'inaugural'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball" [ant: exaugural]
adjective
Serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage" [syn: inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first, maiden]
noun
An address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) [syn: inaugural address, inaugural]
noun
The ceremonial induction into a position; "the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration" [syn: inauguration, inaugural]
Definition of 'Inaugural'
From: GCIDE
- Inaugural \In*au"gu*ral\, a. [Cf. F. inaugural.] Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Inaugural'
From: GCIDE
- Inaugural \In*au"gu*ral\, n. An inaugural address. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inaugural'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- address,
- advanced,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- antecedent,
- antenatal,
- anterior,
- autochthonous,
- avant-garde,
- baccalaureate service,
- beginning,
- budding,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- chalk talk,
- chief,
- commencement,
- convocation,
- creative,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- empty formality,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- exhortation,
- exordial,
- exploratory,
- fetal,
- filibuster,
- first,
- foremost,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal,
- formal speech,
- formality,
- formative,
- foundational,
- function,
- fundamental,
- funeral oration,
- gestatory,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- harangue,
- headmost,
- hortatory address,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural address,
- inauguration,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- induction,
- infant,
- infantile,
- initial,
- initiation,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- installation,
- introductory,
- invective,
- inventive,
- investiture,
- jeremiad,
- leading,
- liturgy,
- mummery,
- nascent,
- natal,
- observance,
- office,
- oration,
- original,
- parturient,
- pep talk,
- performance,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- postnatal,
- precedent,
- preceding,
- precessional,
- precursory,
- prefatory,
- pregnant,
- preliminary,
- preludial,
- prelusive,
- prenatal,
- preparatory,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- prevenient,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- prior,
- procreative,
- proemial,
- propaedeutic,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- religious ceremony,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- service,
- set speech,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- ur,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address