inchoate – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
inchoate
adj.
just begun; incomplete, not fully developed; unorganized
Inchoate offense
An
inchoate offense,
inchoate offence,
preliminary crime, or
inchoate crime is a
crime of preparing for or seeking to commit another crime. The most common example of an inchoate offense is "
attempt". "Inchoate offense" has been defined as: "Conduct deemed criminal without actual harm being done, provided that the harm that would have occurred is one the law tries to prevent."
inchoate
Adjective
1. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"
(synonym) incipient
(similar) early
Inchoate
(v. t.)
To begin.
(a.)
Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
inchoate
Synonyms and related words:
abecedarian, aboriginal, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, antenatal, autochthonous, baggy, beginning, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, budding, capricious, casual, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, confused, creative, desultory, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, disjointed, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate, elemental, elementary, embryonic, erratic, featureless, fetal, fitful, foggy, formative, formless, foundational, frivolous, fundamental, fuzzy, general, gestatory, gratuitous, haphazard, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, immethodical, imprecise, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaccurate, inaugural, inceptive, inchoative, incipient, incoherent, incunabular, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, infant, infantile, inform, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, irregular, kaleidoscopic, kindred, lax, loose, lumpen, meaningless, misshapen, misty, nascent, natal, nondescript, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, orderless, original, parturient, planless, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, promiscuous, random, rudimental, rudimentary, senseless, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, sweeping, systemless, unarranged, unclassified, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unsorted, unspecified, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, ur, vague, veiled, wandering
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
