How to pronounce “inchoate”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
• Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.
• (law) Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.
• [Noun]
• (rare) A beginning, an immature start.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To begin or start (something).
• (transitive) To cause or bring about. In the field of criminology, to encourage, assist, conspire, aid and abet, incite, etc.
• (intransitive) To make a start.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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