nascent
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8.1
- 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
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Watch on YouTubeBritain 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.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.0
Near the beginning of a period, for example childhood
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4.1
Starting to appear and become important
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4.1
Beginning to show promise in a job or activity
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4.0
Likely to become successful or popular soon
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6.5
Starting to grow quickly, like a new business or neighbourhood
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1.1
Just created or started very recently
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6.4
Starting to appear or become important
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8.1
Beginning to exist or develop
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6.4
Describes a person or organization that has little experience
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7.2
At an early stage before a plan or project is fully ready
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2.8
Made or bought fairly recently and not very old
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7.6
Recently appeared or started to exist
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8.1
At an early stage, just beginning to form
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9.9
Just beginning to develop or exist
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7.9
Something that causes new growth or new ideas
About an early stage when a plan or idea is not yet developed
Antonyms
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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.