Nascent and other Words for New

Nascent and other Words for New Nascent and other Words for New Nascent and other Words for New By Maeve Maddox When I heard a man on the NPR Business News refer to a â€Å"new nascent industry,† my redundancy meter clicked. The adjective nascent comes from a Latin verb meaning â€Å"to be born.† The English word means â€Å"about to be born or in the act of being born or brought forth.† In extended use it refers to something in the act or condition of coming into existence. The sense of â€Å"new† seems to be included in the word nascent: In the 1980s, Mr. McMahon formed relationships with cable networks, helping a nascent MTV gain popularity through its wrestling programming. This is the second post in a series on North Carolina’s nascent Medicaid reform What can the nascent legal pot industry learn from the Prohibition Era? Inside Detroit’s Nascent Start-Up Culture In chemistry, nascent describes the condition of an element at the instant it is set free from a combination in which it has previously existed. Ozone also tends to be unstable and break down into dioxygen and nascent oxygen and to react readily with other substances. A close synonym of nascent in some contexts is emergent: Germany, Britain Lead Europe’s Nascent Economic Recovery Spain’s emergent economic recovery brings renewed confidence to the rest of the eurozone Both nascent and emergent are popular as company and product names: Nascent Technologies Nascent Solutions Nascent Design Emergent BioSolutions Emergent Technologies Emergent Game Technologies Some more words to describe something in the process of just beginning: budding developing growing embryonic incipient young fledgling evolving dawning burgeoning Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Vocabulary category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:50 Idioms About Talking25 Russian Words Used in English (and 25 More That Should Be)While vs. Whilst