inchoate
- not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- just begun; incipient.
- not organized; lacking order: an inchoate mass of ideas on the subject.
Origin of inchoate
Related Words for inchoate
amorphous, elementary, embryonic, formless, immature, imperfect, incipient, preliminary, rudimentary, shapeless, unfinished, unformed, inceptive, unshaped, nascentExamples from the Web for inchoate
Contemporary Examples of inchoate
Their inchoate fury lumped together anger at same-sex marriage, at foreigners and at “the system.”
Though blurred, the economic divide was still manifest, although all of them seemed to feel strong, if inchoate, political fervor.
William Morris is so inchoate that you can't even really describe their culture.
Historical Examples of inchoate
With obliterating unconcern, she reduced them to the fluidity of the inchoate.
The Paliser caseEdgar Saltus
Some of our critics in reviewing the original work have pronounced it 'inchoate.'
Researches on CelluloseC. F. Cross
It is, as you may choose to call it, an inchoate poem or the débris of a poem.
Poetry for Poetry's SakeA. C. Bradley
The liability to contribute is inchoate only when the sacrifice has been made.
He somewhere, however, calls Gregorian an "inchoate science."
Cardinal Newman as a MusicianEdward Bellasis
inchoate
- just beginning; incipient
- undeveloped; immature; rudimentary
- (of a legal document, promissory note, etc) in an uncompleted state; not yet made specific or valid
- to begin
Word Origin for inchoate
Word Origin and History for inchoate
1530s, from Latin inchoatus, past participle of inchoare, alteration of incohare "to begin," originally "to hitch up," from in- "on" (see in- (2)) + cohum "strap fastened to the oxen's yoke." Related: Inchoative.