nascent

The word “nascent” has 2 syllables: nas-cent

It's pronounced as /ˈnæsənt/


What is synonym and antonym for nascent?

In the thesaurus, “nascent” has 86 synonyms and 23 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for nascent along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for nascent

  • aborning
  • amorphous
  • antecedent
  • baby
  • babyish
  • basic
  • beginning
  • blossoming
  • budding
  • burgeoning
  • bursting forth
  • callow
  • childish
  • childlike
  • commencing
  • crude
  • developing
  • earliest
  • early
  • elementary
  • embryonic
  • emergent
  • first
  • fledgling
  • foremost
  • formative
  • formless
  • fresh
  • fundamental
  • germinal
  • germinating
  • green
  • growing
  • headmost
  • immature
  • imperfect
  • inaugural
  • inceptive
  • inchoate
  • inchoative
  • incipient
  • incoherent
  • infant
  • infantine
  • initial
  • initiative
  • initiatory
  • introductory
  • just begun
  • juvenile
  • kid
  • leading
  • leadoff
  • maturing
  • naive
  • newborn
  • opening
  • original
  • originating
  • pioneer
  • potential
  • preliminary
  • preparatory
  • primitive
  • promising
  • pubescent
  • puerile
  • pullulating
  • rude
  • rudimentary
  • shapeless
  • shooting up
  • sprouting
  • start
  • tender
  • undeveloped
  • unfinished
  • unfledged
  • unformed
  • unripe
  • unshaped
  • vegetating
  • virgin
  • weak
  • young
  • youthful

Antonyms for nascent

  • adult
  • advanced
  • closing
  • developed
  • dying
  • evolved
  • final
  • following
  • full-blown
  • full-fledged
  • grown
  • grown-up
  • high
  • higher
  • improved
  • last
  • mature
  • refined
  • ripe
  • ripened
  • shrinking
  • subordinate
  • withering

Meanings of nascent

  • adjective
    1. Emerging; just coming into existence.
    2. Describing a quantity of object that is starting to grow from zero or an infinitesimal beginning. Also the creation or identification of an infinitesimal delta.
    3. Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.
    4. Of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.

Example Sentences

  • The nascent company showed promise with its innovative approach to sustainable agriculture.
  • In the nascent stages of their relationship, they were filled with excitement and anticipation.
  • The nascent democracy faced numerous challenges as it struggled to establish its legitimacy.
  • As a young artist, she showcased her nascent talent through vibrant and expressive paintings.
  • The nascent technology promised to revolutionize the way we interact with the digital world.

On this page you'll find 109 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to nascent, such as: aborning, adult, advanced, amorphous, antecedent, baby, babyish.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

vegetating

  • alleviating
  • arrested
  • asleep
  • basking
  • beginning
  • blossoming
  • broken
  • bumming
  • burgeoning
  • bursting forth
  • calming
  • chilling
  • chilling out
  • comforting
  • composing
  • cooling
  • dallying
  • dawdling
  • de-stressing
  • deactivated
  • dead
  • decommissioned
  • decompressing
  • dilly-dallying
  • dillydallying
  • dormancy
  • dormant
  • droning
  • easing
  • embryonic
  • fallow
  • fledgling
  • footling
  • fresh
  • germinal
  • germinating
  • goof-off time
  • growing
  • hibernation
  • idle
  • idleness
  • idling
  • inactive
  • inactivity
  • incipient
  • indolence
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • inert
  • inertia
  • inertness
  • inoperable
  • inoperative
  • inoperativeness
  • joblessness
  • kaput
  • kaputt
  • kicking back
  • latent
  • laze
  • lazing
  • leisure
  • lethargy
  • lifeless
  • loafing
  • loitering
  • lolling
  • loosening up
  • lounging
  • maturing
  • nascent
  • nonactivated
  • nonfunctional
  • nonfunctioning
  • nonoperating
  • nonoperational
  • nonoperative
  • nonproductive
  • opening
  • otiosity
  • own sweet time
  • potential
  • pottering
  • promising
  • pubescent
  • pullulating
  • quiescent
  • quieting
  • relaxing
  • relieving
  • reposing
  • resting
  • settling
  • shiftlessness
  • shooting up
  • sleepy
  • sloth
  • slothfulness
  • slouch
  • slowness
  • sluggishness
  • sprouting
  • stagnating
  • stagnation
  • stupor
  • time to burn
  • time to kill
  • time-wasting
  • torpidity
  • torpor
  • trifling
  • truancy
  • unbending
  • unemployment
  • unproductive
  • unusable
  • unwinding
  • unworkable
  • useless
  • vegging out
  • winding down
  • young
  • zoning out

aborning

  • budding
  • crude
  • elementary
  • embryonic
  • first
  • formative
  • formless
  • fundamental
  • inaugural
  • inceptive
  • inchoate
  • inchoative
  • incipient
  • incoherent
  • initial
  • introductory
  • nascent
  • original
  • preliminary
  • preparatory
  • primitive
  • rude
  • rudimentary

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