initially

English

Etymology

initial +‎ -ly

Adverb

initially (not comparable)

1. at the beginning

   Initially, I found city life incredibly difficult, but now I'm used to it.

Synonyms

• at first

Translations

at the beginning

• Esperanto: komence (eo)
• French: initialement (fr), au début (fr)
• German: zunächst (de), anfangs (de)
• Russian: первоначально (ru) (pervonačálʹno) , изначально (ru) (iznačálʹno) , сначала (ru) (snačála) , вначале (ru) (vnačále) 

• Scottish Gaelic: an toiseach (gd), sa chiad dol a-mach (gd)
• Spanish: inicialmente (es)