Initially

adv.

1.

In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning.

Adv.

1.

initially - at the beginning; "at first he didn't notice anything strange" Synonyms: ab initio, at first, at the start

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