Usually means: Becoming; change to a state.
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  1. inchoative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inchoative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inchoative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inchoative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inchoative: Vocabulary.com
  6. inchoative: Wordnik
  7. inchoative: Wiktionary
  8. inchoative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. inchoative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. inchoative: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. inchoative: Dictionary.com
  12. Inchoative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Inchoative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. inchoative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. inchoative: Rhymezone
  16. Inchoative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. inchoative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. inchoative: Free Dictionary
  19. inchoative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. inchoative: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Inchoative: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inchoative: Legal dictionary

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inchoative)

adjective:  At the beginning, still in an unformed state.
adjective:  (grammar) Aspectually indicating that a state is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
adjective:  (grammar) Inflected in or relating to the inchoative aspect.
noun:  (grammar) An inchoative construction.

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