emergent

Meanings

Plural: emergents

Adjective Satellite

• occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action
  • "emergent repair of an aorta"
• coming into existence
  • "an emergent republic"

Adj

• Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
• Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.
• Constituting an emergency.
• Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
• Having leaves and flowers above the water.
• Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
• That arises at a higher level than that of its components and is not explainable by the behaviour of said components taken individually; having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.

Noun

• A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water.

Synonyms

ascending, emergent, emerging, forthcoming, immature, inchoate, incipient, infant, nascent, new, newly-formed, promising, raw, up-and-coming

Antonyms

dying, moribund

Related Words

emerge, emergence, emergency

Anagrams of emergent