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Antonyms for nascent
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : nas-uh nt, ney-suh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈnæs ənt, ˈneɪ sənt |
Definition of nascent
Origin :- 1620s, from Latin nascentem (nominative nascens) "arising young, immature," present participle of nasci "to be born" (Old Latin gnasci; see genus). Related: Nascence (1560s); nascency.
- As in inchoate : adj undeveloped, beginning
- As in incipient : adj developing
- As in infant/infantile : adj very young
- As in initial : adj beginning, primary
- As in budding : adj developing, flowering
- As in underdeveloped : adj not developed
- As in inceptive : adj beginning
- As in initiatory : adj beginning
- The mystery indeed in which her nascent love had wrapped him had dropped away.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- Freneau succeeded admirably in voicing the opinions of the nascent party.
- Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
- All his nascent intellectual powers were alive and clamorous.
- Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- And it is his own hand which has done most to break the nascent slowly-forming tie.
- Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- The impulses which it obeys are all new; and it obeys them with its own nascent plasticity of temper.
- Extract from : « Ariadne Florentina » by John Ruskin
- As the thing is not a nascent passion for Bothwell, it may be an amour with Riccio.
- Extract from : « The Mystery of Mary Stuart » by Andrew Lang
- Our task now is to describe all we know about man at this date of nascent civilisation.
- Extract from : « Primitive Man » by Louis Figuier
- The requirements of the nascent ceremonial were not yet fulfilled.
- Extract from : « Cathedral Cities of France » by Herbert Marshall
- There was something in his tone which sounded like nascent rebellion.
- Extract from : « The Ladies Lindores, Vol. 3(of 3) » by Margaret Oliphant
- Who will cater to the military needs of this nascent democracy?
- Extract from : « After the Rain » by Sam Vaknin
Synonyms for nascent
- amorphous
- antecedent
- baby
- babyish
- basic
- beginning
- blossoming
- burgeoning
- bursting forth
- callow
- childish
- childlike
- commencing
- dawning
- developing
- earliest
- early
- elementary
- embryonic
- emergent
- first
- fledgling
- foremost
- formless
- fresh
- fundamental
- germinal
- germinating
- green
- growing
- headmost
- immature
- imperfect
- inaugural
- inceptive
- inchoate
- incipient
- infant
- infantine
- initial
- initiative
- initiatory
- introductory
- just begun
- juvenile
- kid
- leading
- leadoff
- maturing
- naive
- nascent
- newborn
- opening
- original
- originating
- pioneer
- potential
- preliminary
- promising
- pubescent
- puerile
- pullulating
- rudimentary
- shapeless
- shooting up
- sprouting
- start
- tender
- undeveloped
- unfinished
- unfledged
- unformed
- unripe
- unshaped
- vegetating
- virgin
- weak
- young
- youthful
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