Nascent
['næs(ə)nt;'neɪ-] or ['næsnt]
Definition
(adj.) being born or beginning; 'the nascent chicks'; 'a nascent insurgency' .
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Definition
(a.) Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.
(a.) Evolving; being evolved or produced.
Typist: Nelly
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Incipient, opening, initial, dawning, inchoative, initiatory, rudimental, beginning, commencing, at the start, in the act of evolution.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Youthful, rising, green, incipient, embryo, rudimental, budding
ANT:Mature, aged, confirmed, developed, grown
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Definition
adj. springing up: arising: beginning to exist or to grow.—n. Nas′cency the beginning of production: birth or origin.
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Examples
- Our conscious thoughts, observations, wishes, aversions are important, because they represent inchoate, nascent activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In other orchids the threads cohere at one end of the pollen-masses; and this forms the first or nascent trace of a caudicle. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The ovigerous frena of certain cirripedes, which have ceased to give attachment to the ova and are feebly developed, are nascent branchiae. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The mammary glands of the Ornithorhynchus may be considered, in comparison with the udders of a cow, as in a nascent condition. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They may be in a nascent condition, and in progress towards further development. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He believes, like Dean Herbert, that species, when nascent, were more plastic than at present. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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