Definition for Incipient:

• Commencing or beginning.

Synonyms for Incipient:

• adj.

  •beginning (adjective)
  • emerging,
  • formative,
  • aboriginal,
  • inaugural,
  • sprouting,
  • newborn,
  • preparatory,
  • primordial,
  • initial,
  • hatching,
  • starting,
  • maiden,
  • fetal,
  • beginning,
  • new,
  • preliminary,
  • genesis,
  • primeval,
  • developing,
  • infantile,
  • embryonic,
  • foremost,
  • Commencing,
  • Dawned,
  • primal.
  •budding (adjective)
  • potential,
  • promising,
  • Germinating,
  • Maturing,
  • incipient,
  • Vegetating,
  • young,
  • pullulating,
  • fresh,
  • blossoming.
  •embryonic (adjective)
  • Evolving,
  • immature.
  •first (adjective)
  • number one,
  • antecedent,
  • least,
  • first off,
  • front,
  • pioneer,
  • smallest,
  • ahead,
  • pristine,
  • head,
  • anterior,
  • premier,
  • leading,
  • key,
  • cardinal,
  • primary,
  • slightest,
  • rudimentary.
  •unborn (adjective)
  • coming,
  • awaited,
  • prospective,
  • expected.
  •undeveloped (adjective)
  • half-baked,
  • underdeveloped,
  • unactualized,
  • behindhand,
  • ignored,
  • unprogressive,
  • untrained,
  • untaught,
  • unevolved,
  • latent,
  • abortive,
  • inexperienced,
  • backward.

• n.

  •
  • in its infancy,
  • progressive,
  • dynamic,
  • in the making,
  • fledgling.
  •
  • leadoff.
  •embryo (noun)
  • organism.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • galloping,
  • burgeoning,
  • initiatory,
  • Inceptive,
  • cumulative,
  • longitudinal.
  •
  • growing,
  • consistent.
  •
  • organic.
  •embryonic
  • unborn.

Paraphrases for Incipient:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    emergent, emerging, embryonic, earlier, early, imminent, impending, preliminary, forthcoming.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    infant.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    nascent, fledgling, budding, infant, early-stage.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    nascent.

Antonyms for Incipient:

• adj.

  • budding
    dying, shrinking, withering.
  • first
    last, final.
  • incipient
    developed, grown, mature.
  • initial
    closing.
  • introductory
    concluding, ending, finishing.
  • Other antonyms:
    full-fledged, late, ripened, full-blown, high, later, ripe, refined, Evolved, improved, adult, higher, advanced.

Incipient Sentence Examples:

• Violet has insisted that he shall not give her an anxious thought, but he is a man, and he does some incipient envying on her account.

• But the raising of the siege of Gibraltar, and reflection upon the probable results of the incipient estrangement between American interests and those of France and Spain, now induced the English to hope for more favorable terms in some particulars.