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Incipient vs Incomplete - What's the difference?

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Incipient is a related term of incomplete.


As adjectives the difference between incipient and incomplete

is that incipient is in an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence while incomplete is .

As a noun incipient

is (countable|obsolete) beginner.

incipient

English

Adjective

(-)
  • In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.
    • After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.
    Employees shall be familiarized with the use of a fire extinguisher in incipient stage fire fighting.

    Synonyms

    * (beginning) beginning, commencing, emerging, starting, inchoate, nascent

    Noun

  • (countable, obsolete) beginner
  • (uncountable, grammar) A verb tense of the Hebrew language.

    • Synonyms

    * (beginner) beginner, inceptor

    Related terms

    * inception * incipience * incipiency * incipiently * incipit ----

    incomplete

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.
  • (botany) Of a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs.

    • Related terms

    * incompletely * incompletion

    Synonyms

    * (not complete) unwhole, underdone, unfinished

    Antonyms

    * complete

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something incomplete.
  • # (Internet) A multipart file posted to Usenet that is incomplete and thus unusable.
  • # (Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.
  • A designation of being incomplete.
    • He got four incompletes out of five courses last semester.
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