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inchoate
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" [syn: incipient ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 recent started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature. 2 Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling. n. (context rare English) A beginning, an immature start. v 1 To begin or start something. 2 To cause or bring ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But it was a vague idea, little more, Neville remembers, than an inchoate impulse. ▪ Here are inchoate signs of life, but not as we know it, Jim. ▪ Problems in criminal law often start with an inchoate crime - conspiracy, ...
Usage examples of inchoate.
Arcole filed away for future reference: that Davyd might be hexed could affect his inchoate plans.
It was enough to release in her a flood of inchoate memories of how she had scurried along the branches of the great, vanished Cretaceous forests.
His video self has a cold masculine classicism only marginally compromised by scars, skeletal forearms, the inchoate pudge about his middle.
It's the sight of a truck bed with two-meter-high imitation test tubes racked on it, with plastic extensions to the exhaust pipe ingeniously funnelled through to make fumes come out of the tubes, that suddenly crystalizes a suspicion from his inchoate thoughts: Avakian!
Or how could the inchoate spiritual creature 1096 deserve of Thee, that even it should flow darksomely like the deep,-unlike Thee, had it not been by the same Word turned to that by Whom it was created, and by Him so enlightened become light, although not equally, yet conformably to that Form which is equal unto Thee?
Is there less talk about the fashion of dress, and the dearness or cheapness of materials, and about servants, and the ways of the inchoate citizen called the baby, and the infinitely little details of the private life of other people?
The Beatific Vision, Sat Chit Ananda, Being -- Awareness -- Bliss -- for the first time I understood, not on the verbal level, not by inchoate hints or at a distance, but precisely and completely what those prodigious syllables referred to.
In view however of the extreme importance of this Great Magical Retirement it would be in the last degree improper to discuss it coram populo while yet inchoate.
I gathered that she might be trying to understand, and cope with, unusual things which had occurred in her body, perhaps for the first time, things which, even in their incipience, even in the first and most inchoate forms, had profoundly stirred her, things which had perhaps hinted at profound latencies of scarcely suspected feelings, and had, perhaps to her dismay or terror, suggested to her what might be done to her, what she could, if a man wished, be made to feel.
There he writes a list of things to do, which makes him feel virtuous and helps to organize his inchoate feeling that there is too much to do, which in itself is helpful, which leads him to think that things aren't really as bad as he thought, which gives him the inspiration to turn the list into a paper aeroplane and shoot it at the trash can.
But even as he was consumed with inchoate lust, still he relished the power of his lithe body as he hurled it through the forest domain for which it was exquisitely adapted.
Librarians had other things to do, such as develop more powerful search engines to sort through the inchoate mass of data when somebody wanted to find out something truly obscure.
Scorrier’s sulks had the power to penetrate, became ruffled by a sense of misgiving, too inchoate to be at first recognizable, but gradually turning content to a vague disquiet.
His eyes rolled upward into his skull for a brief moment, and inchoate vocalizations rolled from his throat as the drug coursed through him.