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starts out

starts out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of start out.

Meaning of start out

Verb

start out (third-person singular simple present starts out, present participle starting out, simple past and past participle started out)

  1. To emerge suddenly; to jump out.
  2. To be or become conspicuous; to stand out.
    • I do not find that any particulars of this day's conversation start out. But it was in general most agreeable.1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 102
  3. To begin.
    • He started out writing for the school magazine, and now he's a TV talk show celebrity.

Questions about starts out

What is starts out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Starts out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of start out.

Words near starts out in the dictionary

  1. starts into
  2. starts off
  3. starts off on the wrong foot
  4. starts on
  5. starts on at
  6. starts out
  7. starts over
  8. starts the ball rolling
  9. starts up
  10. starts up on
  11. starts with a clean sheet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: starts out (page history and authors); start out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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