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[syn: incipient, inchoate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Incipient \In*cip"i*ent\, a. [L. incipiens, p. pr. of incipere
to begin. See Inception.]
Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as,
the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day. --
In*cip"i*ent*ly, adv.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
incipient
adj 1: only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient
civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate
idea" [syn: incipient, inchoate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "incipient":
Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal,
autochthonous, beginning, budding, creative, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed,
dwarfish, elemental, elementary, elfin, embryonic, fetal,
formative, foundational, fundamental, gestatory, in embryo,
in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate,
inchoative, incunabular, infant, infantile, initial, initiative,
initiatory, introductory, inventive, meager, midget, nanoid,
nascent, natal, original, parturient, postnatal, pregnant,
prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial,
procreative, pygmy, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scraggy,
scrubby, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, squat, stunted, undersize,
undersized, ur, wizened