auspicious, bright, encouraging, flying, good, great, impressive, promising, sound, wonderful
Despite a bright start, Liverpool lost the match.

disappointing, disastrous, poor, rocky, shaky, slow, uncertain | false
After a couple of false starts, she found the job that suited her.

fresh, new | early, late | very
right from the very start

make
I think it''s time we made a start.

get off to
The company has got off to an impressive start this financial year.

herald, mark

button, date, signal

at the ~ (of)
Everyone was in a conciliatory mood at the start of the meeting.

from the ~
She felt at home in her new job right from the start.

~ to
The fine winter weather heralded a good start to the year.

~ in
Moving to a good school gave Sally a fresh start in life.

from start to finish
This is a thoroughly good book from start to finish.

suddenly
Her heart suddenly started to race.

immediately | just
He has just started at school. | At that point I just started to hate the man.

off, out
We''ll start off by doing some warm-up exercises.

(all over) again
We''ll just have to start all over again.

decide to, expect to, hope to, intend to, plan to | be due to, be expected to, be scheduled to
Work is due to start this weekend.

be ready to
By early evening he was ready to start work.

be about to, be going to
A new term was about to start.

had better
You''d better start packing if you''re to leave early tomorrow morning.

by
Let''s start by reviewing what we did last week.

from
Start from the beginning and tell me exactly what happened.

on
I''ve finished decorating the bathroom, so now I can start on the bedroom.

with
Let''s start with this first piece of music.

get started
It''s already quite late, so I think we should get started.

let''s start