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Definition of incipient in English: incipientadjective ɪnˈsɪpɪəntɪnˈsɪpiənt 1Beginning to happen or develop. 初期的,早期的;刚发生的,刚发展的 he could feel incipient anger building up 他能感到刚露头的火气正变得越来越大。 刚开始青肿的眼眶。 Example sentencesExamples - The intentional note of grief, imagined, anticipatory, and incipient, is again an important element of that defense.
- I don't appear to be completely incapacitated by incipient Alzheimer's (or is it Retired Raver's Mind-Rot?) after all, then.
- We ended up leaving at around midnight - a disgustingly early time and obvious evidence of our incipient senility.
- Meanwhile, the French girl has had time to take in the holiday wear - the extra-large T-shirt, the shorts, the sandals with cotton socks, the incipient sunburn.
- The following day she had the opportunity to test her incipient beliefs when she dined with an aristocratic English woman.
- Whether closer follow-up of cases of tuberculosis leads to earlier detection of incipient toxicity or other factors are at work is unclear.
- Although it is still too early to draw any final conclusions, we do have incipient evidence that the peer groups are making a difference.
- At least at the beginning of the incipient movement, conservatives and libertarians could find a common enemy in the growth of the New Deal welfare state.
- Aries at 0 is the beginning of the zodiac, the first degree, an incipient point of something that breaks onto the world consciousness.
- He hits on the tight connection in everything we're seeing between incompetence, state mendacity and incipient authoritarianism.
- For an important but limited beginning, Stover's text forms only an incipient explication of the African American mother tongue.
- Pletnev's new version does much to tame the score's incipient vulgarity without compromising its more grotesque elements.
- It seemed inevitable that something would be done at the beginning of this week to halt the incipient crash dynamics of the stock market.
- Her only worrying moment came when she felt incipient cramp in her right leg halfway through the test.
- It may be the knowingness not of incipient sexuality, as some commentators have argued, but rather of being regarded by a camera.
- This was the approach favoured by the group of countries with incipient pharmaceutical industries capable of producing generic copies of highly expensive drugs.
- No indications of tabulation; a short split in the wall either represents damage or is an incipient opening.
- Forget those fluffy-chinned policemen, the true sign of incipient old age these days is a trip to the Under-21 World Cup to witness rugby's gilded future.
- Indo-American relations have developed genuine, if incipient, contents.
- Instead, energy prices are a prime incipient consequence of global reflation.
- 1.1 (of a person) developing into a specified type or role.
(人)正成为某种类型的人的,正进入角色的 we seemed more like friends than incipient lovers 我们看起来更像朋友,而不像渐入佳境的情人。 Example sentencesExamples - Come about 1914, we find ‘shower’ being applied to a heap of gifts ‘showered’ all at once on a lucky bride or incipient mother, usually at a females-only social event.
- Martha's experiences as both a normalista and a paraprofessional enhanced her development as an incipient teacher.
- I am assuming the groomsman is an incipient politician - maybe mayor number three?
Synonyms developing, impending, growing, emerging, emergent, dawning just beginning, starting, inceptive, initial nascent, embryonic, fledgling, in its infancy, germinal rudimentary, inchoate rare embryonal
OriginLate 16th century (as a noun denoting a beginner): from Latin incipient- 'undertaking, beginning', from the verb incipere, from in- 'into, towards' + capere 'take'. Rhymesimpercipient, percipient, recipient Definition of incipient in US English: incipientadjectiveinˈsipēəntɪnˈsɪpiənt 1In an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop. 初期的,早期的;刚发生的,刚发展的 he could feel incipient anger building up 他能感到刚露头的火气正变得越来越大。 刚开始青肿的眼眶。 Example sentencesExamples - The intentional note of grief, imagined, anticipatory, and incipient, is again an important element of that defense.
- No indications of tabulation; a short split in the wall either represents damage or is an incipient opening.
- Pletnev's new version does much to tame the score's incipient vulgarity without compromising its more grotesque elements.
- The following day she had the opportunity to test her incipient beliefs when she dined with an aristocratic English woman.
- Her only worrying moment came when she felt incipient cramp in her right leg halfway through the test.
- Whether closer follow-up of cases of tuberculosis leads to earlier detection of incipient toxicity or other factors are at work is unclear.
- Aries at 0 is the beginning of the zodiac, the first degree, an incipient point of something that breaks onto the world consciousness.
- It seemed inevitable that something would be done at the beginning of this week to halt the incipient crash dynamics of the stock market.
- It may be the knowingness not of incipient sexuality, as some commentators have argued, but rather of being regarded by a camera.
- He hits on the tight connection in everything we're seeing between incompetence, state mendacity and incipient authoritarianism.
- For an important but limited beginning, Stover's text forms only an incipient explication of the African American mother tongue.
- Instead, energy prices are a prime incipient consequence of global reflation.
- Forget those fluffy-chinned policemen, the true sign of incipient old age these days is a trip to the Under-21 World Cup to witness rugby's gilded future.
- I don't appear to be completely incapacitated by incipient Alzheimer's (or is it Retired Raver's Mind-Rot?) after all, then.
- Indo-American relations have developed genuine, if incipient, contents.
- We ended up leaving at around midnight - a disgustingly early time and obvious evidence of our incipient senility.
- Although it is still too early to draw any final conclusions, we do have incipient evidence that the peer groups are making a difference.
- This was the approach favoured by the group of countries with incipient pharmaceutical industries capable of producing generic copies of highly expensive drugs.
- At least at the beginning of the incipient movement, conservatives and libertarians could find a common enemy in the growth of the New Deal welfare state.
- Meanwhile, the French girl has had time to take in the holiday wear - the extra-large T-shirt, the shorts, the sandals with cotton socks, the incipient sunburn.
- 1.1 (of a person) developing into a specified type or role.
(人)正成为某种类型的人的,正进入角色的 we seemed more like friends than incipient lovers 我们看起来更像朋友,而不像渐入佳境的情人。 Example sentencesExamples - Come about 1914, we find ‘shower’ being applied to a heap of gifts ‘showered’ all at once on a lucky bride or incipient mother, usually at a females-only social event.
- I am assuming the groomsman is an incipient politician - maybe mayor number three?
- Martha's experiences as both a normalista and a paraprofessional enhanced her development as an incipient teacher.
Synonyms developing, impending, growing, emerging, emergent, dawning
OriginLate 16th century (as a noun denoting a beginner): from Latin incipient- ‘undertaking, beginning’, from the verb incipere, from in- ‘into, towards’ + capere ‘take’. |