1. incipient - Noun
2. incipient - Adjective
3. incipient - Adjective Satellite
Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.
Source: Webster's dictionaryDo we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit. George Eliot
If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism. Malcolm Turnbull
In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens. Wendell Willkie
Greig, currently hot in the TV comedy Green Wing, has a dark, brittle glamour that isn't quite beauty (there's a disconcerting touch of Edwina Currie about her) and suggests an incipient unhappiness lurking beneath the ready wit. Tamsin Greig
incipient civil disorder Source: Internet
an incipient tumor Source: Internet