inchoate
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9.9
- adjective
- /ɪnˈkoʊɪt/
- Formal
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inchoado
- The project was still inchoate, lacking a clear direction and structure.
- inchoate system
- inchoate form
- inchoate sense
Gig and Stenlika, nature had become an object for the moral consciousness, not just sort of an inchoate ground, something that isn't known.
- Gig and Stenlika, nature had become an object for the moral consciousness, not just sort of an inchoate ground, something that isn't known.
Examples
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Political awareness took the form of an inchoate nationalist ideology.
Academic text (1991) -
Such political beliefs, as inchoate as they may have been, were powerful sources of combat motivation.
Academic text (1991) -
What once seemed inchoate, beyond order, was given order in these equations.
Academic text (1997) -
But once again I found my best intentions overwhelmed by the inchoate mass of the convention itself.
Academic text (1993) -
Saudi reforms are inchoate, succession is unclear, and there are many interest groups.
Academic text (2008) -
Instead, he sees an inchoate aspiration for free political institutions in which citizens can be active participants.
Academic text (2001) -
And then there's that inchoate yearning that was felt I think by many.
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As a result, the inchoate states formed after Westphalia gained the financial backing they needed to become viable.
Academic text (2005) -
Despite the inchoate nature of the documentation, the data set finally incorporated files on 381 soldiers.
Academic text (1991) -
What you made, you made from the inchoate, muscled and shaped not towards the monumental, but toward a form of truth that would matter.
Synonyms
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8.1
Beginning to exist or develop
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4.3
Not grown enough to reach the normal size, skill, or quality
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6.8
A body part that is not fully developed and often too small to work
Just beginning to develop or exist
Antonyms
How Developed
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word inchoate comes from the old Latin word inchoare, which means 'to begin' and is like the English word 'begin', so it describes something that has only just started and is not yet fully formed.