adjective
- not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- just begun; incipient.
- not organized; lacking order: an inchoate mass of ideas on the subject.
adjective (ɪnˈkəʊeɪt, -ˈkəʊɪt)
- just beginning; incipient
- undeveloped; immature; rudimentary
- (of a legal document, promissory note, etc) in an uncompleted state; not yet made specific or valid
verb (ɪnˈkəʊeɪt) (tr)
- to begin
1530s, from Latin inchoatus, past participle of inchoare, alteration of incohare “to begin,” originally “to hitch up,” from in- “on” (see in- (2)) + cohum “strap fastened to the oxen’s yoke.” Related: Inchoative.