Nascent Definition

năsənt, nāsənt
adjective
Coming into being; being born.
Webster's New World
Beginning to form, start, grow, or develop.
Webster's New World
Designating or of the state of an element just released from a compound and having unusual chemical activity because atoms of the element have not combined to form molecules.
Nascent chlorine.
Webster's New World
Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.
Wiktionary
Antonyms:

Origin of Nascent

  • Latin nāscēns nāscent- present participle of nāscī to be born genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin nascÄ“ns, present participle of nascor (“I am born").

    From Wiktionary

Nascent Sentence Examples

  • Our freedom remains nascent, sometimes perverted, often trivialized.

  • The history of Cabernet Sauvignon wasn't fully understood until the 1990s when researchers at the University of California at Davis used the nascent science of DNA testing to identify and type the grapes used to make this red wine.

  • He also contributed much to the nascent field of forensic phonetics.

  • Still relatively nascent and amorphous, translation studies needed just such a means of solidification.

  • The private media, on the other hand, is still nascent.

More Sentences

Related Articles

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to nascent using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

NNANAS

Words Ending With

TNTENT

Unscrambles

nascent

Words Starting With N and Ending With T

Starts With N & Ends With TStarts With NA & Ends With TStarts With N & Ends With NT

Word Length

7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With N7 Letter Words Ending With T