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adj. Beginning to exist or appear: detecting incipient tumors; an incipient personnel problem.

adj. beginning, starting, coming into existence.

n. beginner

n. A verb tense of the Hebrew language.

adj. Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial

Beginning; commencing; entering on existence or appearance.

In Hebrew grammar, noting the verbal tense or form with prefixed servile letters, otherwise called future, present, and imperfect.

adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

"Over the period of time, there was a gap in terms of the number of forces that should have been on the ground and what I call the incipient growth of this insurgency."

early   

incipient cause   

incipiency    inception    incipit    incipiently    incipience   

commencing    initial    elementary    beginning    emerging    starting    inceptor    beginner   

percipient    recipient   

impending    momentary    widespread    uncontrollable    latent    chronic    premature    sudden    nascent    hysterical