embryonicEnglishOxford English Thesaurusembryonic adjective 1 an embryonic chick: fetal, unborn, unhatched. ▷antonyms mature. 2 the plan is still in its embryonic stages: rudimentary, undeveloped, unformed, immature, incomplete, incipient, inchoate, just beginning; fledgling, budding, beginning, potential, nascent, emerging, developing; early, primary, elementary, germinal. ▷antonyms mature, developed.embryonic Oxford Dictionary of English