Associations to the word «Incipient»

Wiktionary

INCIPIENT, adjective. In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.
INCIPIENT, noun. (countable) (obsolete) beginner
INCIPIENT, noun. (uncountable) (grammar) A verb tense of the Hebrew language.

Dictionary definition

INCIPIENT, adjective. Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne