Meaning

1 senses
  1. (not comparable)In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.

    After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.

    Employees shall be familiarized with the use of a fire extinguisher in incipient stage fire fighting.

    einsetzend

    начина́ющийсяnačinájuščijsja, появля́ющийсяpojavljájuščijsja, зарожда́ющийсяzaroždájuščijsja

More definitions
  • only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

Examples

3 sentences
  1. We believe we're seeing signs of incipient fascism.

  2. The incipient movement has a lot to prove.

  3. My old leg injury ached with the pressure change from the incipient storm.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
beginning, starting:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
beginning, starting:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin incipiēns, present participle of incipiō (“begin”).

Borrowed from Latin incipiēns, present participle of incipiō (“begin”).

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Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • only partly in existence; imperfectly formed:inchoate

Word family

2 related words

See also

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