incipient

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++in·cip·i·ent /ɪnˈsɪpiənt/ adjective [only before noun] formal  START TO HAPPEN, EXIST ETCstarting to happen or exist 刚开始的，早期的 a sign of incipient madness 精神失常的早期征兆

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incipient• I am pretty sure that these noises do not proceed from incipient compression failures.• an incipient drinking problem• Yet despite these incipient industrial concentrations, the economy of Piedmont remained overwhelmingly agrarian and rural.• Some assiduously fill notebooks with writing: incipient novelists or thesis writers?• The wind came howling down the street full of rain and incipient snow.• The incipient spouses are of course excited by the adventure, the new life, heralded by marriage.Origin incipient (1600-1700) Latin present participle of incipere; → INCEPTION

in·cip·i·ent adjectiveChineseSyllable  

Corpus happen exist starting or to

incipient
in‧cip‧i‧ent /ɪnˈsɪpiənt/ adjective [only before noun] formalstarting to happen or exist:
    a sign of incipient madness

in·cipi·entBrE /ɪnˈsɪpiənt/ 🔊NAmE /ɪnˈsɪpiənt/ 🔊 adjective [usually before noun] (formal) just beginning 刚开始的；初始的；早期的◆signs of incipient unrest动乱的初期迹象