embryonic

[em-bree-on-ik] / ˌɛm briˈɒn ɪk /

ADJECTIVE

rudimentary

Synonyms

STRONGEST

evolving immature incipient undeveloped

WEAK

beginning developing early elementary germinal

Antonyms

STRONGEST

adult developed grown mature

Example Sentences

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You say you want to get at these details mainly as the go-befores and embryons of "Leaves of Grass."

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

It is curiously in embryons and childhood, and among the illiterate, we always find the groundwork and start, of this great science, and its noblest products.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

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