inchoate

adjective · noun · verbB1

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Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
more inchoate
Superlative
most inchoate
  1. 1.

    Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.

    Đồng nghĩa: elementary, immature, embryonic, incipient, nascent, rudimentary

  2. 2.

    Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.

    Đồng nghĩa: chaotic, confused

  3. 3.

    (law) Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.

    Congress considers the inchoate offenses of attempt and conspiracy, even conspiracy without an overt act, to be just as serious as the federal substantive drug offenses which they contemplate.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
inchoates
  1. 1.

    (rare)A beginning, an immature start.

Động từ

verb
V_es/s
inchoates
V_ing/Gerund
inchoating
V_ed/pp
inchoated
  1. 1.

    (transitive)To begin or start (something).

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To cause or bring about. In the field of criminology, to encourage, assist, conspire, aid and abet, incite, etc.

  3. 3.

    (intransitive)To make a start.

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Nguồn gốc từ

The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb circa 1631; Latin incohātus (begun, unfinished), perfect passive participle of incohō (to begin), see -ate. Cognate with incoar.

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