Inceptive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Incipient; beginning.
  • adj. Grammar Inchoative.
  • n. Grammar An inchoative verb.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. beginning; of or relating to inception
  • adj. aspectually inflected to show that the action is beginning
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; ; -- called also inchoative.
  • n. An inceptive word, phrase, or clause.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Beginning; starting; noting the initial point or step: as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb (one that expresses the beginning of action).
  • In mathematics, serving to initiate or produce: applied to such moments or first principles as, though of no magnitude themselves, are yet capable of producing results which are: thus, a point is inceptive of a line; a line, of a surface; and a surface, of a solid.
  • n. That which begins or notes beginning, as a proposition or a verb. Also inchoative.
    • Word Usage
    "Because I spent a good two minutes weighing the pros and cons of each, I now realize that I was wholly taken advantage of by inceptive in the Christopher Nolan sense of the word marketing."
    Variant
    inchoative   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beginning   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    moment    Balder    period    fibril    non-permanent   
     
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