incipient

1. 1.

   only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

   “incipient civil disorder”

   “an incipient tumor”

   “a vague inchoate idea”

   Synonymsinchoate

   Similarearly

Questions about incipient

What does incipient mean?

incipient means "only partly in existence; imperfectly formed".

How many syllables are in incipient?

incipient has 4 syllables: in-cip-i-ent. The stress falls on "cip". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈsɪpiənt/.

What is another word for incipient?

Close synonyms include inchoate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is incipient a common word?

incipient is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with incipient?

2 words rhyme with incipient. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.