nascent

just beginning or coming into being

Root

  • nasc / nat: born, birth, native, natural, or coming into being

Other words with the nasc / nat root

  • innate: inborn or built in
  • naive: inexperienced or too trusting
  • native: born in or belonging naturally to a place
  • natural: belonging to nature or present without being forced

Nascent keeps the birth image: something is being born, not fully grown yet.

The nascent project had energy but no stable process.

Nascent is useful for ideas, movements, skills, or institutions at the birth stage. It is early, fragile, and still becoming.

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