incipient [adjective]: in an early or initial stage.
Example: If detected at an incipient stage, almost any cancer is fully curable.
Related words: incipiently [adverb]
Synonyms: beginning, burgeoning, commencing, embryonic, germinal, inchoate, initial, nascent, originating
Antonyms: complete, developed, grown, mature
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