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incipient
Meaning: just beginning to appear or develop
incipient in a sentence
How incipient is used in real sentences:
Doctors detected an incipient infection before severe symptoms appeared.
The first green shoots revealed an incipient recovery in the burned forest.
“Under vines and plaster, Mara found incipient arches emerging from foundations, their brick curves stopping a foot above ground.”
— from the passage The Open Corner
“In February 1797, while the frigate Resolute waited in a frozen harbor, its lieutenants began exchanging letters that their captain would later call an incipient mutiny.”
— from the passage The Officers' Correspondence
Synonyms for incipient
Other words for incipient — nascent, emerging and budding — carry the same meaning.
- nascent
- emerging
- budding
Antonyms of incipient
Words that mean the opposite of incipient:
- mature
- developed
- established
Where it comes from
From Latin incipere, meaning 'to begin.'
Memory hook
INCIPIENT begins like INCEPTION: both point to a beginning.