Meaning & use
insipient
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Lacking wisdom, sense, or good judgment; foolish.
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His insipient decision to invest his savings in the scheme cost him dearly.
The critic dismissed the plan as an insipient blunder doomed to fail.
A note on using this word
Insipient is frequently confused with the unrelated word 'incipient' (meaning beginning to exist); the two are pronounced almost identically but have entirely different meanings.
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Words with an opposite meaning
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