kicking off

The phrase “kicking off” has 3 syllables: kick-ing off

It's pronounced as /ˈkɪkɪŋ ɔf/


What is synonym and antonym for kicking off?

In the thesaurus, “kicking off” has 62 synonyms and 34 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for kicking off along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for kicking off

  • adopting
  • beginning
  • biting the dust
  • buying it
  • buying the farm
  • checking out
  • commencing
  • consuming
  • creating
  • croaking
  • deceasing
  • demising
  • departing
  • disappearing
  • dropping
  • drying up
  • dying
  • embracing
  • ending
  • establishing
  • exiting
  • expiring
  • fading
  • failing
  • falling
  • fathering
  • flatlining
  • founding
  • generating
  • getting going
  • getting off
  • getting to
  • giving up the ghost
  • going
  • inaugurating
  • initiating
  • innovating
  • instituting
  • inventing
  • kicking in
  • kicking the bucket
  • launching
  • leading off
  • opening
  • organizing
  • originating
  • parting
  • passing away
  • pegging out
  • perishing
  • pioneering
  • popping off
  • predeceasing
  • setting about
  • setting up
  • snuffing it
  • spawning
  • starting
  • stepping out
  • succumbing
  • taking on
  • taking up

Antonyms for kicking off

  • abandoning
  • abolishing
  • being
  • breathing
  • ceasing
  • closing
  • coming to
  • completing
  • concluding
  • demolishing
  • desisting
  • destroying
  • discontinuing
  • ending
  • existing
  • exterminating
  • extinguishing
  • finishing
  • flourishing
  • forsaking
  • halting
  • knocking off
  • laying off
  • leaving
  • lingering
  • living
  • phasing out
  • prospering
  • quitting
  • reviving
  • stopping
  • subsisting
  • terminating
  • thriving

Example Sentences

  • The concert is kicking off at 7 PM sharp, so make sure you're there early.
  • The party is kicking off with a live band performance to get everyone in the mood.
  • The match is kicking off in just a few minutes, so grab your snacks and find a seat.
  • The conference is kicking off with an opening keynote speech from the CEO.
  • The festival is kicking off this weekend with a parade through the city streets.

On this page you'll find 96 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to kicking off, such as: abandoning, abolishing, adopting, beginning, being, biting the dust, breathing.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

falling

  • abating
  • alleviating
  • angling
  • backslide
  • backsliding
  • biting the dust
  • bombing
  • bowed
  • bowing
  • bowing out
  • breaching
  • breaking
  • breaking the law
  • buckling
  • buying it
  • buying the farm
  • canting
  • capitulating
  • checking out
  • cocking
  • collapsing
  • compressing
  • conceding
  • condensing
  • constricting
  • consuming
  • contracting
  • crashing
  • cratering
  • croaking
  • crumbling
  • crumpling
  • dangling
  • de-escalating
  • decadence
  • decay
  • decaying
  • deceasing
  • declension
  • declination
  • decline
  • declined
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • deflating
  • degeneracy
  • degeneration
  • degradation
  • demising
  • departing
  • descendant
  • descendent
  • descending
  • descent
  • deterioration
  • devaluation
  • diminishing
  • dipping
  • disappearing
  • diving
  • downfall
  • downgrade
  • drooping
  • droopy
  • dropping
  • drying up
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • easing
  • ebbing
  • ending
  • erring
  • evaporating
  • exiting
  • expiring
  • fading
  • failing
  • falling away
  • falling from grace
  • faltering
  • flagging
  • flatlining
  • flopping
  • floppy
  • flumping
  • flunking
  • folding
  • forfeiting
  • foundering
  • free-falling
  • giving out
  • giving up
  • giving up the ghost
  • going
  • handing over
  • hanging
  • heeling
  • hung
  • inclining
  • infringing
  • keeling
  • kicking in
  • kicking off
  • kicking the bucket
  • knuckling under
  • lapse
  • lapsing
  • leaning
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • limp
  • listing
  • losing
  • lowering
  • messing up
  • missing
  • moderating
  • nodding
  • nose-diving
  • offending
  • palling
  • parting
  • passing away
  • pegging out
  • pendant
  • pendent
  • pendulous
  • perishing
  • phasing down
  • plonking
  • plopping
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • plunking
  • popping off
  • precipitating
  • predeceasing
  • receding
  • reclining
  • regress
  • regression
  • relapse
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • relinquishing
  • remitting
  • retreating
  • retrogression
  • reversion
  • sagging
  • settling
  • shrinking
  • sinking
  • sinning
  • skidding
  • slackening
  • slanting
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • sloping
  • slumping
  • snuffing it
  • stepping out
  • stooping
  • straying
  • striking out
  • stumbling
  • submitting
  • subsiding
  • succumbing
  • surrendering
  • suspended
  • taking the count
  • tanking
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • throwing
  • tilting
  • tipping
  • toppling
  • tottering
  • transgressing
  • trespassing
  • tripping
  • tumbling
  • vanishing
  • violating
  • wandering
  • waning
  • washing out
  • weakening
  • weeping
  • wiping out

deceasing

  • biting the dust
  • buying it
  • buying the farm
  • checking out
  • consuming
  • croaking
  • demising
  • departing
  • disappearing
  • dropping
  • drying up
  • dying
  • ending
  • exiting
  • expiring
  • fading
  • failing
  • falling
  • flatlining
  • giving up the ghost
  • going
  • kicking in
  • kicking off
  • kicking the bucket
  • parting
  • passing away
  • pegging out
  • perishing
  • popping off
  • predeceasing
  • snuffing it
  • stepping out
  • succumbing

kicking the bucket

  • biting the dust
  • buying it
  • buying the farm
  • checking out
  • consuming
  • croaking
  • deceasing
  • demising
  • departing
  • disappearing
  • dropping
  • drying up
  • dying
  • ending
  • exiting
  • expiring
  • fading
  • failing
  • falling
  • flatlining
  • giving up the ghost
  • going
  • kicking in
  • kicking off
  • parting
  • passing away
  • pegging out
  • perishing
  • popping off
  • predeceasing
  • snuffing it
  • stepping out
  • succumbing

launching

  • ablution
  • accession
  • act
  • admission
  • adopting
  • appearance
  • arrangement
  • arranging
  • authoring
  • award
  • baptismal
  • beginning
  • bestowal
  • birth
  • bow
  • bowling
  • bucking
  • cast
  • casting
  • catapulting
  • christening
  • chuck
  • chucking
  • coming out
  • coming out party
  • commencement
  • commencing
  • conceiving
  • concocting
  • conferral
  • constituting
  • constructing
  • contriving
  • coronation
  • creating
  • curtain-raiser
  • darting
  • dashing
  • dawn
  • debut
  • dedication
  • delivering
  • delivery
  • demonstration
  • developing
  • devising
  • display
  • dog and pony show
  • donation
  • dunking
  • ejecting
  • ejection
  • embracing
  • endowing
  • enlarging
  • entrance
  • entree
  • establishing
  • exhibition
  • expanding
  • exposition
  • expulsion
  • fabricating
  • fathering
  • fertilization
  • financing
  • firing
  • first step
  • fitting
  • fling
  • flinging
  • flipping
  • formation
  • founding
  • funding
  • furnishing
  • generating
  • germination
  • getting going
  • getting off
  • getting to
  • giving
  • graduating
  • graduation
  • gunning
  • heave
  • heaving
  • hooking
  • hurl
  • hurling
  • hurtling
  • immersion
  • impelling
  • impregnation
  • inaugural
  • inaugurating
  • inauguration
  • inception
  • incoming
  • induction
  • initiating
  • initiation
  • innovating
  • insemination
  • installment
  • instatement
  • instituting
  • institution
  • introducing
  • introduction
  • inventing
  • invention
  • investiture
  • investment
  • kicking off
  • kickoff
  • knockdown
  • launch
  • leading off
  • letting fly
  • lob
  • lobbing
  • lofting
  • lustration
  • making up
  • manufacturing
  • offering
  • onset
  • opener
  • opening
  • ordination
  • organizing
  • origin
  • originating
  • outset
  • overture
  • passing
  • peg
  • pegging
  • pelting
  • pioneering
  • pitch
  • pitching
  • placing
  • planting
  • positioning
  • precipitating
  • present
  • presentation
  • producing
  • production
  • projecting
  • projection
  • propelling
  • proposal
  • proposition
  • propulsion
  • purgation
  • purge
  • purification
  • putting up
  • reception
  • refounding
  • reinitiating
  • reinstituting
  • relaunching
  • remembrance
  • rendition
  • representation
  • rifling
  • rite of passage
  • ritual
  • rolling
  • sales pitch
  • sanctification
  • setting about
  • setting up
  • shooting
  • shot
  • show
  • sling
  • slinging
  • spawning
  • spiel
  • sprinkling
  • staging
  • start
  • starting
  • submission
  • subsidizing
  • systematizing
  • systemizing
  • taking on
  • taking up
  • throwing
  • thrust
  • thrusting
  • toss
  • tossing

kicking in

  • affording
  • ante up
  • awarding
  • bestowing
  • biting the dust
  • buying it
  • buying the farm
  • checking out
  • chip in
  • chipping in
  • commit
  • conferring
  • consuming
  • contributing
  • croaking
  • deceasing
  • demising
  • departing
  • disappearing
  • dish out
  • dole out
  • donate
  • donating
  • dropping
  • drying up
  • dying
  • ending
  • endowing
  • exiting
  • expiring
  • fading
  • failing
  • falling
  • flatlining
  • fork over
  • furnish
  • furnishing
  • give
  • giving
  • giving up the ghost
  • going
  • hand out
  • hand over
  • kicking off
  • kicking the bucket
  • parting
  • passing away
  • pegging out
  • perishing
  • pitch in
  • pitching in
  • pony up
  • popping off
  • predeceasing
  • presenting
  • provide
  • providing
  • snuffing it
  • stepping out
  • succumbing

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