Incipient

ahd-5
  • adjective. Beginning to exist or appear.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Beginning; commencing; entering on existence or appearance.
  • In Hebrew grammar, noting the verbal tense or form with prefixed servile letters, otherwise called future, present, and imperfect.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. beginning, starting, coming into existence.
  • noun. beginner
  • noun. A verb tense of the Hebrew language.
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  • adjective. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
    • Word Usage
    "Over the period of time, there was a gap in terms of the number of forces that should have been on the ground and what I call the incipient growth of this insurgency."
    cross-reference
    incipient cause  
    Equivalent
    early  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    percipient  recipient  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abortive  chronic  downright  hysterical  impending  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Lilliputian  Tom Thumb  abecedarian  aboriginal  antenatal  
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