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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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