incipient

About 1.68 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.

   After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.

2. noun A beginner.
3. noun A verb tense of the Hebrew language.

Similar words

inchoate early nascent emergent emerging beginning start impending forthcoming imminent

Often followed by

stage stages and or species state form in fusion rebellion

Word family

incipiently