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inchoate
Meaning: just beginning and not yet fully formed
inchoate in a sentence
How inchoate is used in real sentences:
The club began as an inchoate idea discussed after school.
The scientist described an inchoate theory that still needed evidence.
“Because the project's model was still inchoate, the team could only surmise which composition would unfold an antenna reliably in orbit.”
— from the passage The Returning Hinge
“Her objections concealed an inchoate fear: if the method vanished, years of exacting practice might produce nothing beyond a beautiful private memory.”
— from the passage The Final Impression
“Their theory of pressure remained inchoate, yet the experiment gave its rough concepts a shape that argument alone had not supplied.”
— from the passage The Chamber Argument
Synonyms for inchoate
Other words for inchoate — undeveloped, rudimentary and nascent — carry the same meaning.
- undeveloped
- rudimentary
- nascent
Antonyms of inchoate
Words that mean the opposite of inchoate:
- mature
- complete
- finished
Where it comes from
From Latin incohare, meaning 'to begin.'
Memory hook
INCHOATE sounds like 'in-coat': the idea is still getting dressed, not fully ready.