Foremost
Foremost adverb - Before anything else.
Initially
Initially adverb - In the beginning.
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Synonyms for Initially
Foremost and initially are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Foremost" instead an adverb "Initially".
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In a cutscene from Dead or Alive: Dimensions, Hayate initially wants to find Kasumi and bring her home, but Shiden, Hayate and Kasumi's own father, blatantly tells him that, as the next leader of the clan, his loyalty is to the clan itself first and foremost.
Source: Lawful Stupid - Rudolph Van Richten, the realm's foremost monster hunting expert, hated the Vistani for most of his career, but it was hard to blame him; the reason he became a vampire hunter initially was because a Vistani tribe kidnapped his son and sold him to a vampire.
Source: Politically Incorrect Hero
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Initially and Foremost. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/foremost/initially
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