Inchoate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪnˈkəʊət/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Inchoate is an adjective meaning Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
Meaning
Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
More Meanings
- Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.
- (law) Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.
- (transitive) To begin or start (something).
- (transitive) To cause or bring about. In the field of criminology, to encourage, assist, conspire, aid and abet, incite, etc.
- (intransitive) To make a start.
- (rare) A beginning, an immature start.
Example Sentences
neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate
Very odd and ugly were these beings, as indeed are most beings of a world yet inchoate and rudely fashioned.
A youth whose brain glowed like a furnace, whose heart throbbed with tumult of high ambitions, of inchoate desires.
...unfortunately, we have to face inchoate schemes which will demand the utmost jealousy and vigilance of Parliament.
Word Forms
- inchoates
- inchoating
- inchoated
Synonyms for inchoate
Depending on context, synonyms include elementary, immature, embryonic, incipient, nascent, rudimentary.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include incipient, early, nascent, basic, elementary, flawed.
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