Meaning of INCHOATE
| Pronunciation: | | in'kowit
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| | Definition: | | [adj] only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" |
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| | Synonyms: | | early, incipient |
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| | Definition: | | Inchoate
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\In"cho*ate\, a. [L. inchoatus, better incohatus, p. p.
of incohare to begin.]
Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully
in existence or operation; existing in its elements;
incomplete. -- {In"cho*ate*ly}, adv.
Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate.
--Raleigh.
\In"cho*ate\, v. t.
To begin. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.
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| | Related Terms: | | abecedarian, aboriginal, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, antenatal, autochthonous, baggy, beginning, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, budding, capricious, casual, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, confused, creative, desultory, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, disjointed, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate, elemental, elementary, embryonic, erratic, featureless, fetal, fitful, foggy, formative, formless, foundational, frivolous, fundamental, fuzzy, general, gestatory, gratuitous, haphazard, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, immethodical, imprecise, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaccurate, inaugural, inceptive, inchoative, incipient, incoherent, incunabular, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, infant, infantile, inform, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, irregular, kaleidoscopic, kindred, lax, loose, lumpen, meaningless, misshapen, misty, nascent, natal, nondescript, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, orderless, original, parturient, planless, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, promiscuous, random, rudimental, rudimentary, senseless, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, sweeping, systemless, unarranged, unclassified, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unsorted, unspecified, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, ur, vague, veiled, wandering |
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