About The Word Nascent
Learn about the word Nascent to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Nascent definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Nascent
| Nascent Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Nascent?
[adj] coming into existence; "a nascent republic"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Nascent: aborning | emergent | emerging Related Terms | Find terms related to Nascent: abecedarian | aboriginal | antenatal | autochthonous | beginning | budding | creative | elemental | elementary | embryonic | fetal | formative | foundational | fundamental | gestatory | in embryo | in its infancy | in the bud | inaugural | inceptive | inchoate | inchoative | incipient | incunabular | infant | infantile | initial | initiative | initiatory | introductory | inventive | natal | original | parturient | postnatal | pregnant | prenatal | primal | primary | prime | primeval | primitive | primogenial | procreative | rudimental | rudimentary | ur See Also | Nascent In Webster's Dictionary \Nas"cent\, a. [L. nascens, -entis, p. pr. nasci to be
born. See {Nation}, and cf. {Naissant}.]
1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to
exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.
Nascent passions and anxieties. --Berkley.
2. (Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced.
{Nascent state} (Chem.), the supposed instantaneous or
momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just
separated from one compound acid, and not yet united with
another, -- a hypothetical condition implying peculiarly
active chemical properties; as, hydrogen in the nascent
state is a strong reducer.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Specular ‐ capable of reflecting light like a mirror; "mirrorlike surface…
- Timor ‐ an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest…
- Guyot ‐ a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the…
- Marginal placentation ‐ with ovules borne on the wall along the ventral suture of a simple…
- Genus euarctos ‐ American black bears; in some classifications not a separate…
- Gravitational attraction ‐ (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe;…
- Family endamoebidae ‐ a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive…
- Ball field ‐ the baseball…
- Glottis spuria ‐ the opening between the false…
- Vena vestibularis ‐ veins that drain the saccule…