initially

• POS: Adverb
• HYPHEN: in=i=tial=ly

CIDE DICTIONARY

initially, adv. 

 In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning.  Barrow.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

initially

ab initio, ab ovo, aborigine, at first, at the start, before everything, chiefly, first, first and foremost, first thing, firstly, from the beginning, in the beginning, mainly, originally, primarily, primitively, primo, principally