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nascent
[ nas-uhnt, ney-suhnt ]
adjective
- beginning to exist or develop:
That nascent republic is holding its first election this month.
- Chemistry. (of an element) in the nascent state.
nascent
/ ˈneɪ-; ˈnæsənt /
adjective
- starting to grow or develop; being born
- chem (of an element or simple compound, esp hydrogen) created within the reaction medium in the atomic form and having a high activity
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Derived Forms
- ˈnascence, noun
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Other Words From
- nascence nascen·cy noun
- un·nascent adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nascent1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nascent1
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Example Sentences
As a nascent sound engineer, Brinsley “tried the best he could.”
But in dethroning, or even denting, Cuomo, this nascent movement is facing its greatest test.
What are the next steps and goals for this nascent movement?
This toll was particularly painful for the nascent life insurance industry.
However, one nascent winner has been the rise of crowdsourced fractional labor.
During the first three centuries ten distinct general persecutions swept over the nascent Christian Church.
Already the buds 50 were swelling on the old trees, and the haze of nascent foliage hung over them.
An inventor seizes upon fresh facts, and combines them with the old, which thereby become nascent.
Moreover, it is worthy of remark that the problems he handled were all nascent at the time he worked upon them.
He was a Philosophical Biologist in the new and nascent sense of the middle period of the nineteenth century.
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