incipient
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8.1
- adjective
- /ɪnˈsɪpiənt/
:
incipiente
- So we want to look at this incipient movement and the principles on which it's based.
- incipient change
- incipient conflict
- incipient movement
Secondly, particularly in Africa, the incipient tradition of tribalism.
- Secondly, particularly in Africa, the incipient tradition of tribalism.
- To be rational is to be, at least in an incipient way, social.
- But he didn't realize that the war by then had become mechanized and brutal, and fascism was incipient in the German campaign.
- So I don't So I use that whenever I feel a little incipient bud of anger and then it just dials down the anger.
Examples
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Ours is at least an incipient age of globalization.
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She noticed an incipient interest in astronomy among her students.
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To be rational is to be, at least in an incipient way, social.
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We're looking at a completely incipient creature.
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The President eyes the EXCOM members one by one, an incipient smile on his face.
Fiction book (2000) -
In practice, the Western Shoshone National Council is an incipient government of the federal type.
Academic text (1992) -
What money there is goes to pressing social needs and to jump-starting the incipient market economy.
Academic text (1995) -
At the same time, it anticipates the emergence of an incipient class consciousness.
Academic text (1990) -
Moulsworth's complaints about unequal education are hardly the only evidence her poem offers of an incipient feminist consciousness.
Fiction book (1996) -
Liberalization should catalyze incipient pluralist consciousness within civil society, acting to balance emerging military brawn.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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8.1
Beginning to exist and showing signs of future growth
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6.4
Starting to appear or become important
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9.9
Not fully formed and only partly developed, like an idea or plan
Just beginning to develop or exist
Antonyms
How Developed
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4.6
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3.5
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4.1
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8.1
- Formal
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8.1
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7.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
incipient = incipi + ent
Formed from the non‑productive Latin combining form 'incipi-' plus the adjective suffix '-ent'; these elements are not recognizable to an average B1 learner, so the meaning 'beginning' is not transparently derived from known English parts.
Etymology
The word incipient comes from the Latin incipere, which means 'to begin', and is made from in- 'in' plus a root meaning 'take', as in capture. So something incipient is just starting to exist or grow.