Synonyms for originate
əˈrɪdʒ əˌneɪtorig·i·nate

English Synonyms and Antonyms(4.00 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. originate

   Synonyms:
   begin, commence, enter upon, inaugurate, initiate, institute, set about, set going, set in operation, set on foot, start

   Antonyms:
   abstain, bring to an end, cease, come to an end, conclude, desist, discontinue, end, end, finish, give over, intermit, leave off, pause, quit, refrain, stop, terminate

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. originate

   Synonyms:
   commence, spring, rise, start, initiate, invent, create, cause to be made, proceed, emanate

   Antonyms:
   prosecute, conduct, apply

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, growverb

   come into existence; take on form or shape

   "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

   Synonyms:
   turn, start, bristle, mature, rise, get, build up, prepare, stand up, climb up, uprise, maturate, acquire, go up, rebel, surface, lift, arise, spring up, farm, come up, grow, train, evolve, modernize, bob up, resurrect, ascend, initiate, develop, climb, heighten, make grow, break, get up, prove, germinate, move up, turn out, jump, raise, formulate, modernise, rear, produce, mount, rise up, wax, recrudesce, educate, explicate

2. originate, initiate, startverb

   bring into being

   "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation"

   Synonyms:
   start, initiate, rise, get, broach, get going, develop, uprise, commence, get down, take off, induct, bulge, embark on, part, arise, spring up, grow, pop out, go, depart, lead off, set off, startle, start up, bug out, begin, jump, bulge out, set about, pop, start out, set forth, lead up, protrude, come out, take up, pioneer, set out

3. originateverb

   begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.

   "The flight originates in Calcutta"

   Synonyms:
   spring up, rise, initiate, start, arise, uprise, grow, develop

Matched Categories

1. • Begin
   • Create

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. originateverb

   Synonyms:
   create, breed, bring into existence, be the author of, be the cause of, give rise to

2. originateverb

   Synonyms:
   arise, rise, begin, spring, proceed, emanate, flow, take its rise

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "originate":

   originates, originated, origin, come

How to pronounce originate?

How to say originate in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use originate in a sentence?

1. I Ching:

   Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.

2. John von Neumann:

   I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth — which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations — that mathematical ideas originate in empirics. But, once they are conceived, the subject begins to live a peculiar life of its own and is ... governed by almost entirely aesthetical motivations. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. Whenever this stage is reached the only remedy seems to me to be the rejuvenating return to the source: the reinjection of more or less directly empirical ideas.

3. Thomas Alva Edison:

   Great ideas originate in the muscles.

4. The Speech and Debate Clause:

   One potential hurdle that the committee must consider is a lawmaker citing the Speech and Debate Clause, which states that a sitting member of Congress is protected from certain inquiries and procedures that originate outside of Congress. But members on the panel and legal scholars alike do not see that as an issue.Michael Flynn sues January 6 committee to block phone records subpoena.

5. Catherine Bradshaw:

   With the big ice sheet on Antarctica like we have today, the predominant winds are known as katabatic winds, and these go from the land to the sea, they originate from the ice sheet where it is very high, very cold and very dry -- in fact Antarctica receives only a few inches of snowfall a year and is so dry it is classified as a desert.