Usually means: Beginning to develop or form.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. inchoate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inchoate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inchoate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inchoate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inchoate: Vocabulary.com
  6. inchoate: Wordnik
  7. inchoate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inchoate: Wiktionary
  9. inchoate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inchoate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inchoate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inchoate: Dictionary.com
  13. inchoate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Inchoate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. inchoate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. inchoate: Rhymezone
  17. Inchoate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. inchoate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. inchoate: Free Dictionary
  20. inchoate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. inchoate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. inchoate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. inchoate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. inchoate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. inchoate: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. inchoate: Legal dictionary
  9. inchoate: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inchoate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inchoate: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
adjective:  Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.
adjective:  (law) Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.
noun:  (rare) A beginning, an immature start.
verb:  (transitive) To begin or start (something).
verb:  (transitive) To cause or bring about. In the field of criminology, to encourage, assist, conspire, aid and abet, incite, etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a start.

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