| Main Entry: | embryonic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rudimentary |
Synonyms: |
beginning, developing, early, elementary, evolving, germinal, immature, incipient, undeveloped |
| Main Entry: | budding |
| 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 |
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dying, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | inchoate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undeveloped, beginning |
Synonyms: |
amorphous, elementary, embryonic, formless, immature, imperfect, inceptive, incipient, just begun, nascent, preliminary, rudimentary, shapeless, unfinished, unformed, unshaped |
Antonyms: |
developed, grown, mature |
| 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: | 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: | little |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | small in size, amount |
Synonyms: |
Lilliputian, babyish, bantam, brief, cramped, diminutive, dinky, elfin, embryonic, fleeting, hardly any, hasty, immature, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infant, infinitesimal, insufficient, junior, light, limited, meager, microscopic, mini, miniature, minute, not big, not large, peanut, petite, scant, short, short-lived, shrimpy, shriveled, skimpy, slight, snub, sparse, stubby, stunted, teeny, tiny, toy, truncated, undersized, undeveloped, wee, wizened, young |
Antonyms: |
big, enormous, giant, great, huge, immense, large, massive |
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earliest |
Synonyms: |
aboriginal, archetypal, authentic, autochthonous, beginning, commencing, early, elementary, embryonic, first, first-hand, genuine, inceptive, infant, initial, introductory, opening, pioneer, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, prototypal, rudimental, rudimentary, starting, underivative, underived |
Antonyms: |
derivative, latest, newest |
| Main Entry: | potential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | promising |
Synonyms: |
abeyant, budding, conceivable, dormant, embryonic, future, hidden, imaginable, implied, inherent, latent, likely, lurking, plausible, possible, prepatent, probable, quiescent, thinkable, undeveloped, unrealized, within realm of possibility |
Antonyms: |
helpless, impossible, lacking, unpromising |
| Main Entry: | premature |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earlier in occurrence than anticipated |
Synonyms: |
a bit previous, abortive, early on, embryonic, forward, green*, immature, incomplete, inopportune, overearly, oversoon, precipitate, predeveloped, previous, raw*, soon, unanticipated, undeveloped, unfledged, unripe, untimely |
Antonyms: |
backward, delayed, late, mature, overdue |
| Main Entry: | rudimentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, fundamental |
Synonyms: |
abecedarian, basal, beginning, early, elemental, elementary, embryonic, immature, initial, introductory, larval, nuts-and-bolts, primary, primitive, simple, simplest, uncompleted, undeveloped, vestigial |
Antonyms: |
additional, advanced, derivative, developed, extra, nonessential |