Synonyms 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"

   Synonyms:
   inchoate

   Antonyms:
   late, later(a)

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1. incipientadjective

   Synonyms:
   beginning, commencing, inchoate

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1. List of paraphrases for "incipient":

   nascent, fledgling, emerging, budding

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1. 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.

2. 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.