(adv.) In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
Thesaurus Entries
ab initio, aborigine, afresh, again, anew, as new, at first, at the start, basal, basic, before everything, chiefly, constituent, constitutive, de novo, elemental, elementary, essential, first, first and foremost, first thing, firstly, freshly, from scratch, from the beginning, fundamental, gut, in the beginning, initially, mainly, material, new, newly, of the essence, once more, original, originally, primal, primarily, primary, primitive, primo, principally, radical, substantial, substantive, underlying
