Definition of inceptive in English:
inceptive
adjective ɪnˈsɛptɪvɪnˈsɛptɪv
1Relating to or marking the beginning of something; initial.
the inceptive period of the program
Example sentencesExamples
- After quick cooling down, the inceptive sunshade curtain is set to a curled finished sunshade curtain.
- Up to now, the inceptive style of Chicano performance art has typically been identified with Luis Valdez's Teatro Campesino.
- And of course the most outstanding example of an inceptive cyborg where mind and matter are linked into one functional device is a living biological system.
- And this is also true of the person who relies for his inceptive right upon a filing.
- Skinner's Original Pirate Material isn't inceptive but inventive, and he's asking for the same from more of his contemporaries.
Synonyms
beginning, opening, commencing, starting, embryonic, fledgling
- 1.1Grammar (of a verb) expressing the beginning of an action.
Example sentencesExamples
- This same phrase is repeated later in but with an inceptive prefix emphasizing the inchoative sense.
- Many of the most frequently used verbs in English are merely inceptive variants of other common verbs.
- In colloquial use, this affix may be appended to the inceptive copulas and to verbs as well, though this is considered uneducated.
noun ɪnˈsɛptɪvɪnˈsɛptɪv
Grammar An inceptive verb.
Example sentencesExamples
- These verbs are in the literature referred to as ‘inceptives’.
- The logical subject was marked nominative with intransitives, inceptives and verbs of motion.
Origin
Early 17th century (as a noun): from late Latin inceptivus, from incept- 'begun', from the verb incipere.
Definition of inceptive in US English:
inceptive
adjectiveɪnˈsɛptɪvinˈseptiv
1Relating to or marking the beginning of something; initial.
the inceptive period of the program
Example sentencesExamples
- Up to now, the inceptive style of Chicano performance art has typically been identified with Luis Valdez's Teatro Campesino.
- Skinner's Original Pirate Material isn't inceptive but inventive, and he's asking for the same from more of his contemporaries.
- After quick cooling down, the inceptive sunshade curtain is set to a curled finished sunshade curtain.
- And this is also true of the person who relies for his inceptive right upon a filing.
- And of course the most outstanding example of an inceptive cyborg where mind and matter are linked into one functional device is a living biological system.
Synonyms
beginning, opening, commencing, starting, embryonic, fledgling
- 1.1Grammar (of a verb) expressing the beginning of an action; inchoative.
Example sentencesExamples
- This same phrase is repeated later in but with an inceptive prefix emphasizing the inchoative sense.
- Many of the most frequently used verbs in English are merely inceptive variants of other common verbs.
- In colloquial use, this affix may be appended to the inceptive copulas and to verbs as well, though this is considered uneducated.
nounɪnˈsɛptɪvinˈseptiv
Grammar An inceptive verb.
Example sentencesExamples
- The logical subject was marked nominative with intransitives, inceptives and verbs of motion.
- These verbs are in the literature referred to as ‘inceptives’.
Origin
Early 17th century (as a noun): from late Latin inceptivus, from incept- ‘begun’, from the verb incipere.