nascent

Meanings

Adjective

• being born or beginning
  • "the nascent chicks"
  • "a nascent insurgency"

Adj

• Emerging; just coming into existence.
• Describing a quantity of object that is starting to grow from zero or an infinitesimal beginning. Also the creation or identification of an infinitesimal delta.
• Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.
• Of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.
• Naissant.

Synonyms

emergent, emerging, immature, in statu nascendi, inchoate, incipient, infant

Antonyms

dying, moribund

Related Words

antenatal, innate, natal, native, nativism, natural, naturalism, naturel, naturism, prenatal