nascent
C1CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General adjective
Just coming into existence; beginning to develop.
The nascent movement had no name yet.
Business adjective
Just coming into existence and beginning to show potential for growth.
They staked out the nascent market years before it was obvious there would be a market at all.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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