单词 | inchoate |
释义 | inchoate —inchoately, adv. —inchoateness, n. /in koh"it, -ayt/ or, esp. Brit., /in"koh ayt'/, adj. 1. not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary. 2. just begun; incipient. 3. not organized; lacking order: an inchoate mass of ideas on the subject. [1525-35; < L inchoatus, var. of INCOHATUS ptp. of incohare to begin, start work on, perh. equiv. to in- -IN-2 + coh(um) hollow of a yoke into which the pole is fitted + -atus -ATE1] |
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