inchoate
adjective · noun · verbB1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
Đồng nghĩa: elementary, immature, embryonic, incipient, nascent, rudimentary
- 2.
Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.
Đồng nghĩa: chaotic, confused
- 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- 1.
(rare)A beginning, an immature start.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To begin or start (something).
- 2.
(transitive)To cause or bring about. In the field of criminology, to encourage, assist, conspire, aid and abet, incite, etc.
- 3.
(intransitive)To make a start.
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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.