Word of the Day: Germinal

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Word of the Day: 
Germinal

PRONUNCIATION: 
[jur-muh-nl] 
This week's words
Abet
Embrace

Extricate
Germinal
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MEANING:
adjective 1. being in the earliest stage of development: germinal ideas, creative. 2. of or pertaining to a germ or germs. 3. of the nature of a germ or germ cell.

ETYMOLOGY1808, from Mod.L. germinalis "in the germ," from L. germen (gen. germinis) "sprout, bud, sprig, offshoot" (see germ) + -al (1).

USAGE: Freud is regarded as one of the most germinal thinkers of the last century.        

SYNONYMS: beginning, blossoming, burgeoning, bursting forth, embryonic, fledgling, fresh, germinal , germinating, growing, incipient, maturing, nascent, opening, potential, promising, pubescent, pullulating, shooting up, sprouting, vegetating, young


ANTONYMS: dying, shrinking, withering



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