Nearby Words
| Main Entry: |
budding
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | developing, flowering |
| Synonyms: | beginning, blossoming, burgeoning, bursting forth, embryonic, fledgling, fresh, germinal, germinating, growing, incipient, maturing, nascent, opening, potential, promising, pubescent, pullulating, shooting up, sprouting, vegetating, young |
| Antonyms: | dying, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | incipient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | developing |
| Synonyms: | basic, beginning, commencing, elementary, embryonic, fundamental, inceptive, inchoate, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, nascent, originating, start |
| Antonyms: | developed, grown, mature |
| Main Entry: | infant/infantile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very young |
| Synonyms: | baby, babyish, callow, childish, childlike, dawning, developing, early, emergent, green*, growing, immature, infantine, initial, juvenile, kid, naive, nascent, newborn, puerile, tender, unfledged, unripe, weak, youthful |
| Antonyms: | adult, grown-up, mature |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | initial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beginning, primary |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, basic, commencing, earliest, early, elementary, embryonic, first, foremost, fundamental, germinal, headmost, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, incipient, infant, initiative, initiatory, introductory, leading, nascent, opening, original, pioneer, virgin |
| Antonyms: | closing, final, last |
| Main Entry: | underdeveloped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not developed |
| Synonyms: | embryonic, immature, inchoate, nascent, rudimentary, undeveloped |
| Antonyms: | developed |
| Main Entry: | inceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, basic, commencing, earliest, early, elementary, embryonic, first, foremost, fundamental, germinal, headmost, inaugural, inchoate, incipient, infant, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, leading, leadoff, nascent, opening, original, pioneer, virgin |
| Main Entry: | initiatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, basic, commencing, earliest, early, elementary, embryonic, first, foremost, fundamental, germinal, headmost, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, incipient, infant, initial, initiative, introductory, leading, leadoff, nascent, opening, original, pioneer, virgin |
| Main Entry: | leadoff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, basic, commencing, earliest, early, elementary, embryonic, first, foremost, fundamental, germinal, headmost, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, incipient, infant, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, leading, nascent, opening, original, pioneer, virgin |
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