Synonyms for Inchoate

Synonyms for "inchoate" (183 found)

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Closest matches (37)

Adjective(6 words)

incipientattempted crimebegin cohere commence develop

abecedarian aboriginal aimless aleatoric aleatory amorphic amorphous anarchic antenatal autochthonous baggy beginning blobby blurred blurry broad budding capricious casual chance

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chancy chaotic characterless confused creation creative desultory disarticulated disconnected discontinuous

Verb(1 words)

attempted

Strong matches (55)

disjointed disjunct disordered disorderly dispersed disproportionate elemental elementary embryonic erratic featureless fetal fitful foggy formative formless foundational frivolous fundamental fuzzy

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general gestatory gratuitous haphazard hazyhit-or-missill-defined immethodical imprecisein embryoin its infancyin the budinaccurate inaugural inceptive inchoative incipient incoherent incunabular indecisive indefinable indefinite indeterminable indeterminate indiscriminate indistinct inexact infant infantile

Adjective(5 words)

draft embryonic emerge formulateincipient offense

Adjective(1 words)

emergent

Related words (91)

inform initial initiative initiatory introductory inventive irregular kaleidoscopic kindred lax loose lumpen meaningless misshapen misty muddled nascent natal nondescript nonspecific

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Adjective(14 words)

initiatejuvenile birdlaunch nascentnascent ideanotional originate preliminarypreparatory offenserudimentary tentative undevelopedundeveloped societyunfinished offense

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

11 entries

adjective concept creation crime descriptorformation processidea initiation offense proposal start

More specific

18 entries

attempt cohere congeal conspiracy crystallize design draftdraft policyformulateinchoate conceptinchoate ideainchoate planinitiate launchnotional frameworkpreliminary plan

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Collocations

8 entries

inchoate conceptinchoate draftinchoate ideainchoate movementinchoate offenseinchoate planinchoate policyinchoate stage

Inflections

5 entries

inchoated inchoates inchoatingmore inchoatemost inchoate

Derivations

5 entries

inchoately inchoateness inchoation inchoative inchoativeness

similar

1 entries

early

Sample sentences

16 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

An attempt to commit a crime is considered an inchoate offense that can itself be punished.

Source: tatoeba (10056048)

My life is a mess of numerous inchoate pursuits which I continuously delude myself into thinking I will complete.

Source: tatoeba (11125425)

This definition is inchoate, and thus it must be interpreted.

Source: tatoeba (11683507)

The definition is inchoate, and thus it must be interpreted.

Source: tatoeba (13075345)

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Inchoate