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Definitions: INCEPTIVE |
INCEPTIVEAdjective1. Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative. Noun1. An inceptive word, phrase, or clause. |
Date "INCEPTIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beginning | Adjective: beginning; Verb: initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive, introductory, incipient; proemial, inaugural; inchoate, inchoative; embryonic, rudimental; primogenial; primeval, primitive, primordial; (old); aboriginal; natal, nascent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "INCEPTIVE": inceptive verb. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "INCEPTIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fillues. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إستهلالي (capital, introductory, prefatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | който почва, начеващ (incipient, infantile, tyro), начален (auroral, elemental, embryo, incipient, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, opening, original), начинателен глагол (inchoative), зараждащ се (incipient, nascent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | poèáteèní (incipient, initial, opening, original, rudimentary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | initial (initial), inchoatif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | anfangend (incipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αρχικόσ (initial, initiatory, original, originative, primal, primary, primitive, primordial, pristine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kezdõ (beginner, debutant, initial, initiative, recruit, young). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | introduttivo (introductory, prefatory, preliminary), iniziale (early, inchoate, initial, opening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inceptiveay incipiente (beginning, incipient, lead off), absorção (absorbing, absorption, absorption of a particle, absorption of radiation, adsorption, aspiration, energy absorption, input-output, loading, particle absorption, retention, sorption, uptake). (various references) iniţial (inchoative, incipient, initial, initially, original, originally, primary), de început (early, initial, initiative, opening). (various references) начальный (early, incipient, infantine, initial, initiatory, insipient, lead off, primary). (various references) početni (exordial, inchoate, incipient, initial, maiden, opening), koji započinje (inchoative). (various references) inicial (incipient, initial, lead, leading, low). (various references) baştaki (head, initial), başlayan, bağlayan (binding, conjunctive), başlama (begin, commencing, connecting, go off, inception, initiation, kickoff, launching, onset, outbreak, start, starting, throwoff). (various references) початковий (a.b.c., arch-, archetypal, basic, elemental, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, infant, initial, initiative, initiatory, institutional, opening, original, originary, primary, prime, primordial, protoplastic). (various references) mở đầu (initiatory, opening, preliminary, prelusive), bắt đầu (inchoative, initiative, initiatory, opening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "INCEPTIVE": inceptively, inceptives. (additional references) | |
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"INCEPTIVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acceptive, incetive, insertive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-n-p-t-v" | |
-2 letters: invitee. | |
-3 letters: entice, evince, incept, incite, invite, pecten, pectin, pinite, tiepin. | |
-4 letters: civet, civie, event, evict, evite, inept, niece, nieve, pence, piece, vinic. | |
-5 letters: cent, cepe, cete, cine, cite, epic, etic, even, inti, neep, neve, nevi, nice, nite, peen, pein, pent, pice, pine, pint, teen, tine, tipi, veep, vein, vent, vice, vine. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-n-p-t-v" | |
+1 letter: inceptives, inspective. | |
+2 letters: inceptively, nociceptive. | |
+3 letters: precognitive. | |
+4 letters: interoceptive, introspective, uncompetitive. | |
+5 letters: inappreciative, noncompetitive, nondescriptive, unappreciative. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 43 45 50 54 49 56 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.-. . .--. - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001110 01000011 01000101 01010000 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N C E P T I V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E 0043 0045 0050 0054 0049 0056 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)434837395054435639 |
| 1. Definition 2. Expressions 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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