nascent
- adjective
- /ˈneɪsənt/
- Formal
- The start-up is a nascent company with innovative ideas that could revolutionize the tech industry.
- nascent industry
- nascent democracy
- nascent stage
Britain dismantles its war machine, cancels its, you know, nascent computing operations.
- Britain dismantles its war machine, cancels its, you know, nascent computing operations.
- The crisis of disappointment is one of the first crises that all nascent relationships must pass through.
- It's at this point still very much a, a nascent organization trying to secure its home.
- And then finally a struggle once culture had shown some of the nihilism that was nascent within it.
- Everyone of the virtues that Aristotle discusses we can see as in us in a sort of nascent state from our our childhood on.
- Still very nascent, but as I look at the future of warfare, it's unmanned cyber.
- Her dress clung to her sturdy body, the nascent curves of womanhood beginning to show how she was laughing.
- But I don't regret one second losing that job because that was the beginning of I feel like my nascent maturity as a maker.
- What's so different now is, is the advent of a very nascent, but seemingly robust like commercial fusion and, you know, Endeavour.
- And I spent the summer hanging out with him trying to learn about this nascent cell of heroin users in the in the wealthy light suburbs of Roanoke.
- And then finally, he says, the nascent impulse of hatred, envy or revenge can no longer even cross the threshold of consciousness.
Examples
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As Comeaux discovered, by the 1880s a nascent commercial crawfish industry had emerged in Louisiana.
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Did the Hurrians play a part in this nascent civilization?
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It's at this point still very much a, a nascent organization trying to secure its home.
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And then when I went to China, the market was in the nascent state.
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This is an evolving, this is a very nascent field.
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But we should remember that when Drew arrived, there was no deep structure to this nascent institution.
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The crisis of disappointment is one of the first crises that all nascent relationships must pass through.
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381 During those negotiations, environmental law in the United States was in a nascent stage.
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Beyond the economic aspects of the programs, U.S. officials also sought to maintain India's nascent democratic government.
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After a stint in the Israel Defense Forces, he became active in the nascent world of Soviet-immigrant politics.
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Synonyms
Near the beginning of a period, for example childhood
Likely to become successful or popular soon
Describes a person or organization that has little experience
Beginning to exist or develop
Starting to grow quickly, like a new business or neighbourhood
Starting to appear or become important
At an early stage before a plan or project is fully ready
Starting to appear and become important
Made or bought fairly recently and not very old
Beginning to show promise in a job or activity
Just created or started very recently
Just beginning to develop or exist
At an early stage, just beginning to form
About an early stage when a plan or idea is not yet developed
Recently appeared or started to exist
Something that causes new growth or new ideas
Antonyms
How New
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nascent comes from the Latin nascere, which means 'to be born', and it shares the same root as native ('born'). Think of something just born, small and new, so a nascent idea or industry is one that has just begun and shows future promise.