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/ˌɪnˈsɪpiənt/
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[ UK /ɪnsˈɪpiənt/ ]
[ UK /ɪnsˈɪpiənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
a vague inchoate idea
incipient civil disorder
an incipient tumor
How To Use incipient In A Sentence
- Autopsy revealed that Hubert was suffering from an incipient neoplasm in his prostate gland. DISPLACED PERSON
- Writer, publisher, mother of two incipient adults, slave of cats: Barbara Friend Ish is the publisher of Mercury Retrograde Press, which publishes fantasy, science fiction, and interstitial works. MIND MELD: The Best Genre Crossovers
- This was the approach favoured by the group of countries with incipient pharmaceutical industries capable of producing generic copies of highly expensive drugs.
- He is a great, flabby sham, an actor close to suicide, maybe - and this is an extraordinary display of incipient madness or incorrigible playfulness.
- The incipient rebellion was quickly quashed, however, when journalists received email notification of the enormous salary rises which will accompany the deal.
- Mr. Sistani, the true hero of Iraq's survival and incipient renaissance, is the standard-bearer of the traditional Shiite view of politics called "quietism," which rejects the clerical rule invented by the Ayatollah Khomenei in Iran. Coming to Terms With Iraqi Democracy
- The hope, he felt, lay in incipient black militancy, in latent white decency, and, above all, in education. A Man From Mars
- JUVENALtS Sldera te excipiant modo prlmos incipientcm 19 f Edere vagitus; & adhuc a matre rubentem. A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ...
- Although it is still too early to draw any final conclusions, we do have incipient evidence that the peer groups are making a difference.
- Then he gave another whoop significant of the extreme of nervous abashedness and the incipient defiance of his masculine estate, there was a flourish of heels, followed by a swift glimmering slide of steel, and he was off trailing his sled. The Portion of Labor