Crossword-Solution: INCEPTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inceptive | a. | Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative. |
| Inceptive | n. | An inceptive word, phrase, or clause. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “INCEPTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Noting the beginning. | 1 answer |
| inchoative | 4 answers |
| archetypal | 10 answers |
| nascent | 15 answers |
| Incipient | 21 answers |
| initiative | 25 answers |
| Inchoate | 28 answers |
| Coming into being | 36 answers |
| initiatory | 36 answers |
| Starting | 62 answers |
| Beginning | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INCEPTIVE (5)
But, Robin, do you think I am really fit for that sort of life always?--can't you believe in anything else but marriage for a woman?" As she thus spoke, she unconsciously created a new impression on his mind,--a veil seemed to be suddenly lifted, and he saw her as he had never before seen her--a creature removed, isolated and unattainable through the force of some inceptive intellectual quality which he had not previously suspected.
All day long he was marching and countermarching his favorite brigades of verbs--verbs frequentative, verbs inceptive, verbs desiderative--horse, foot, and artillery; changing front, advancing from the rear, throwing out skirmishing parties, until Kate, not given to faint, must have thought of such a resource, as once in her life she had thought so seasonably of a vesper headache.
The development of wheeled vehicles from the first inceptive idea of the wheel to the present appreciable methods of its use was comprehensively illustrated.
All the attraction of her gorgeous habiliments, her warm assurance and her inceptive tenderness detached themselves from the general fusion and became distinct.
This increased interest in trade in general and this inceptive interest in those who "go down to the sea in ships" have both of them left their reflexion in the religious life of the time; two new deities are introduced, both of them almost certainly by means of the Sibylline oracles, though some accidental blanks in our historical tradition have deprived us of details.
Quotes with INCEPTIVE (1)
Fear of failure is deceptive. Don't do it, you'll fail, it says. Courage is inceptive. It's where success starts.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1942).