Inchoate \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. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inchoate \In"cho*ate\, v. t.
To begin. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inchoate
adj : only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient
civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague
inchoate idea" [syn: incipient]
WordNet (r) 2.0
152 Moby Thesaurus words for "inchoate":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
INCHOATE. That which is not yet completed or finished. Contracts are
considered inchoate until they are executed by all the parties who ought to
have executed them. For example, a covenant which purports to be tripartite,
and is executed by only two of the parties, is incomplete, and no one is
bound by it. 2 Halst. 142. Vide Locus paenitentiae.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
incipient
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