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. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
incipient
adj : only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient
civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague
inchoate idea" [syn: inchoate]
WordNet (r) 2.0
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "incipient":
Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, 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, 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, undersize,
undersized, ur, wizened
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
inchoate, incipient cavitation, incipient decay, incipient dune, incipient polyphony, incipient speciation, incipient stage fire
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