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inceptive

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of inceptive

beginning to come into existence

only just recently gained an inceptive understanding of the overwhelming vastness of the universe

Synonyms of inceptive

aborning, budding, inchoate, incipient, nascent

Words Related to inceptive

first, formative, inaugural, inchoative, initial, original

elementary, embryonic, fundamental, rudimentary

formless, incoherent

introductory, preliminary, preparatory

crude, primitive, rude

Near Antonyms of inceptive

advanced, developed, evolved, high, higher, improved, refined

Antonyms of inceptive

adult, full-blown, full-fledged, mature, ripe, ripened

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