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UK
/ˈɪntʃəʊt/
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[ US /ˌɪnˈkoʊət/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈkoʊət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
a vague inchoate idea
incipient civil disorder
an incipient tumor
How To Use inchoate In A Sentence
- A native title ‘claim’ is not technically made for recompense for past loss, but for the recognition of current but inchoate rights.
- This is essentially the key question in deciding on the appropriate basis for the criminal responsibility required for commission of the inchoate offences of incitement, conspiracy and attempt.
- Classic poetry and rhetoric give kids a language, at once subtle and copious, in which to articulate their own thoughts, perceptions, and inchoate feelings.
- Between 1984 and 1987 he personified our inchoate desire to shake free of the Muldoon years and remake ourselves in a bolder, prouder way.
- Musicals answered my need to give that inchoate adolescent passion form, to embrace experience and then see a pattern in its marks on me.
- From one crawled screechingly an inchoate thing that gimped on incomplete legs while upon its back a fully aware man, or the top half of one, gripped and tore and pummeled the creature to which it was attached with suicidal violence. Perquampi
- This wouldn't be much of a play, so Donaghy tells it in stammers and dithers, fragmented verbiage and non sequiturs, inchoate bits and overlapping dialogue, aposiopesis and time lags (a question is answered three or four lines later).
- The main content of servile athletics includes inchoate athletics sports, physical education in Athen, warrior education in Spartan, and ancientry Olympic games.
- They determine its generative power, for the sememe can be regarded as an inchoate text and, conversely, a narrative best defined as an expanded sememe to which a time dimension has been added.
- One thing I was told, by a number of Holocaust authorities, was that the idea of the human skin lampshade, a specter that had inspired much inchoate fear in my nine-year old mind as I grew up in Queens during the 1950's, was not thought to have ever existed. Mark Jacobson: Looking At An Icon Of Evil