incipient (adj.)
- abecedarian
- aboriginal
- antenatal
- autochthonous
- beginning
- budding
- creative
- dumpy
- dwarfish
- elemental
- elementary
- elfin
- embryonic
- fetal
- formative
- fundamental
- inaugural
- inceptive
- inchoate
- inchoative
- infantile
- initial
- initiative
- initiatory
- introductory
- inventive
- meager
- midget
- nascent
- natal
- original
- parturient
- postnatal
- pregnant
- prenatal
- primal
- primary
- prime
- primeval
- primitive
- procreative
- rudimentary
- runty
- scraggy
- scrubby
- shriveled
- shrunken
- squat
- stunted
- undersize
- undersized
- ur
- wizened
