inchoate
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inchoate \In"cho*ate\, a. [L. inchoatus, better incohatus, p. p.
of incohare to begin.]
Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully
in existence or operation; existing in its elements;
incomplete. -- {In"cho*ate*ly}, adv.
[1913 Webster]
Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate.
--Raleigh.
[1913 Webster]
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
INCHOATE. That which is not yet completed or finished. Contracts are
considered inchoate until they are executed by all the parties who ought to
have executed them. For example, a covenant which purports to be tripartite,
and is executed by only two of the parties, is incomplete, and no one is
bound by it. 2 Halst. 142. Vide Locus paenitentiae.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
152 Moby Thesaurus words for "inchoate":
abecedarian, aboriginal, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic,
amorphous, anarchic, antenatal, autochthonous, baggy, beginning,
blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, budding, capricious, casual,
chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, confused, creative,
desultory, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, disjointed,
disjunct, disordered, disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate,
elemental, elementary, embryonic, erratic, featureless, fetal,
fitful, foggy, formative, formless, foundational, frivolous,
fundamental, fuzzy, general, gestatory, gratuitous, haphazard,
hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, immethodical, imprecise, in embryo,
in its infancy, in the bud, inaccurate, inaugural, inceptive,
inchoative, incipient, incoherent, incunabular, indecisive,
indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate,
indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, infant, infantile, inform,
initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive,
irregular, kaleidoscopic, kindred, lax, loose, lumpen, meaningless,
misshapen, misty, nascent, natal, nondescript, nonspecific,
nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, orderless,
original, parturient, planless, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal,
primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial,
procreative, promiscuous, random, rudimental, rudimentary,
senseless, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic,
stochastic, straggling, straggly, sweeping, systemless, unarranged,
unclassified, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined,
undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered,
unorganized, unplain, unsorted, unspecified, unsymmetrical,
unsystematic, ununiform, ur, vague, veiled, wandering
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