'Incipient' definitions:
Definition of 'incipient'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" [syn: incipient, inchoate]
Definition of 'Incipient'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'incipient'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Lilliputian,
- 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,
- Tom Thumb,
- undersize,
- undersized,
- ur,
- wizened