Antonyms for incipient
ɪnˈsɪp i əntin·cip·i·ent

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1. incipientadjective

   beginning, starting, coming into existence.

   After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.

   Synonyms:
   inceptor, beginner, commencing, beginning, starting, emerging

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1. incipient, inchoateadjective

   only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

   "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"

   Antonyms:
   late, later(a)

   Synonyms:
   inchoate

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1. waning

   Submitted by anonymous on December 16, 2020  

2. fulminantadjective

   very basically: "fulminant" means "full-blown." "incipient" means static with the potential to become full blown.

   "at the top of the ski run i had an incipient snag in my woolen tights. at the bottom, it had become a fulminant and embarrassing gap."

   Submitted by conniefanos175 on April 23, 2022  

How to use incipient in a sentence?

1. Eugen Weinberg:

   We are confident that the incipient decline of production in the United States will herald a long-term and fundamental bottoming out process on the oil market.

2. Elvis Picardo:

   The implications of a rise in royalty rates would be quite negative for the Canadian energy sector, coming as it would at a time of unprecedented turmoil caused by the plunge in crude oil prices, the incipient recovery we have been seeing lately in the energy sector could well be quashed.

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