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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 [in-koe-ate]
Adjective
Formal just begun and not yet properly developed [Latin incohare to make a beginning]
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Adj.1.inchoate - only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"
incipient
early - being or occurring at an early stage of development; "in an early stage"; "early forms of life"; "early man"; "an early computer"
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Then his eyes went muddy, as if he had lost his grip on the inchoate thought.
Before Adam by London, Jack View in context
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.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
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.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
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