Definitions for incipient

incipient in·cip·i·ent

Spelling: [in-sip-ee-uh nt]
IPA: /ɪnˈsɪp i ənt/

Incipient is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in incipient (ceiiinnpt).

Definitions for incipient

adjective

  1. beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage:

Origin of incipient

1580-90; Latin incipient- (stem of incipiēns, present participle of incipere to take in hand, begin), equivalent to in- in-2 + -cipi- (combining form of capi

Examples for incipient

It seems inarguable that the donation has something to do with the incipient arrival of the unflattering film.

But his incipient campaign was scuttled, and he soon separated from his fourth wife.

He, too, was found to be suffering from incipient tuberculosis.

William was straining at his collar and growling like an incipient thunderstorm.

How ludicrous is the incipient inebriety of a man who wears spectacles!

At a dinner with journalists, hedge-fund manager George Soros spoke of an “incipient war in currencies.”

He had reached the incipient stages of regret of his rash promise.

His eyes were ringed and bloodshot with fatigue, and with incipient snow-blindness.

He was a prime mover behind the Saudi military intervention in Bahrain a year ago to smash an incipient Shia reform movement.

Similarly, much of the policy rhetoric coming from Washington focuses on fears of incipient inflation that have yet to pan out.

Word Value for incipient
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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