GET STARTED (gets started, getting started, got started)

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Irregular inflected forms: gets started    , getting started    , got started   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does get started mean? 

• GET STARTED (verb)
  The verb GET STARTED has 1 sense:

1. start to be active

  Familiarity information: GET STARTED used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET STARTED (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Start to be active

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bestir oneself; get cracking; get going; get moving; get rolling; get started; get weaving

Context example:

Get cracking, please!

Hypernyms (to "get started" is one way to...):

begin; commence; get; get down; set about; set out; start; start out (take the first step or steps in carrying out an action)

Sentence frames:

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 Context examples 

First, Uranus, the planet of unanticipated events—ones you’d never think possible—will bring surprise good news about the money you need to get started.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You can get started by talking to your relatives about their health.

(Family History, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

He had hardly got started with the work, however, when his quick ears caught the sounds of a distant car.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It’s a long walk to the school, and the sooner we get started the better.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On other days they were unable to get started at all.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There was a brief pause in the conversation they were trying to get started.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

An' he went like greased lightnin' once he got started.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

For Heaven’s sake don’t get started on a new problem when your nerves are all in shreds.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) Is it hard for you to get started on new projects?

(GDS - Hard to Start New Projects, NCI Thesaurus)

A little, when you look moody and discontented, as you sometimes do, for you've got such a strong will, if you once get started wrong, I'm afraid it would be hard to stop you.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)