incipient
I
adjective
aboriginal, beginning, budding, commencing, elemental, elementary, embryonic, foundational, fundamental, immature, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incunabular, infant, initial, initiatory, introductory, maiden, nascent, original, precursory, prefatory, primal, primary, primeval, primitive, proemial, rudimental, rudimentary, starting, uncompleted
II
index
inchoate, initial, original (initial), preliminary, preparatory, prime (original)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006