Inchoate
[ɪn'kəʊeɪt;'ɪnk-;-ət] or [ɪn'koɪt]
Definition
(a.) Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.
(v. t.) To begin.
Typed by Borg
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Beginning, commencing, incipient.
Edited by Ervin
Definition
adj. only begun: unfinished rudimentary: not established.—v.t. (Browning) to begin.—adv. In′choately.—n. Inchoā′tion beginning: rudimentary state.—adj. Inchō′ative incipient.
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Examples
- Our conscious thoughts, observations, wishes, aversions are important, because they represent inchoate, nascent activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She looked full into his face, and her dark, inchoate eyes had now a furtive look, and a look of a knowledge of evil, dark and indomitable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The more the educator knows of music the more he can perceive the possibilities of the inchoate musical impulses of a child. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All the time she kept her dark, inchoate eyes full upon him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was watching him all the time with her dark, dilated, inchoate eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Hermione seemed to be bearing down on her, awful and inchoate, making some appeal. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The sensation of her inchoate suffering roused the old sharp flame in him, a mordant pity, a passion almost of cruelty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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