ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Choate

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Choate is an adjective meaning Complete, fully formed.

Meaning

Complete, fully formed.

Example Sentences

Unlike this particular image of Emerson's, however, Bloom's visions are more particularized and more choate in the grimness of his tone.
They used Islam—though admittedly much more inchoate in the seventh century than in the twelfth–to give definition to Judaism, again one more choate in the twelfth century than in the seventh.
1988 [Routledge], Anthony O'Hear, The Element of Fire: Science, Art and the Human World, 2014, Taylor & Francis (Routledge Revivals), page 119, The abandonment of style in art is less likely to lead to an authentic expression of one's actual feelings than to a self-dramatising display of adolescent brutality, in which one screams because, deprived of the stylistic means to express anything more choate, or articulated, one simply expresses that.

Synonyms for choate

Depending on context, synonyms include developed, matured, complete, finished, realized, formed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plerotic, rounded, teleiotic, quasicomplete, catalectic, semiformed.

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