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inchoate

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in·cho·ate  (n-kt)
adj.
1. In an initial or early stage; incipient.
2. Imperfectly formed or developed: a vague, inchoate idea.

[Latin inchotus, past participle of inchore, to begin, alteration of incohre : in-, in; see in-2 + cohum, strap from yoke to harness.]

in·choate·ly adv.
in·choate·ness n.

inchoate
adj [ɪnˈkəʊeɪt -ˈkəʊɪt]
1. just beginning; incipient
2. undeveloped; immature; rudimentary
3. (Law) (of a legal document, promissory note, etc.) in an uncompleted state; not yet made specific or valid
vb [ɪnˈkəʊeɪt] (tr)
to begin
[from Latin incohāre to make a beginning, literally: to hitch up, from in-2 + cohum yokestrap]
inchoately  adv
inchoateness  n
inchoation  n
inchoative  [ɪnˈkəʊətɪv] adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.inchoate - only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"
early - being or occurring at an early stage of development; "in an early stage"; "early forms of life"; "early man"; "an early computer"

inchoate (Formal)
adjective
1. incipient, beginning, nascent, inceptive The dispute threatens to smash the inchoate government to fragments.
2. undeveloped, elementary, immature, imperfect, embryonic, rudimentary, formless, unformed His prose is every bit as inchoate as the wilderness in which he travels.
Translations
inchoate [ˈɪnkəʊeɪt] ADJ [idea] → que no ha tomado forma definitiva; [anger] → inexpresado
inchoate
adj (liter)unausgeformt


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Then his eyes went muddy, as if he had lost his grip on the inchoate thought.
Possibly my inchoate thought was: Better to reign among booze-fighters a prince than to toil twelve hours a day at a machine for ten cents an hour.
It was about studies and lessons, dealing with the rudiments of knowledge, and the schoolboyish tone of it conflicted with the big things that were stirring in him - with the grip upon life that was even then crooking his fingers like eagle's talons, with the cosmic thrills that made him ache, and with the inchoate consciousness of mastery of it all.
 
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