inchoate :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

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adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"

Fuzzynyms (4)

emergent, emerging, nascent

adj. coming into existence; "an emergent republic"

budding

adj. beginning to develop; "a budding genius"

Synonyms (10)

beginning, novice

adj. serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"

primitive, crude, rude

adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

embryonic, embryotic, in embryo

adj. in an early stage of development; "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"

precocious

adj. appearing or developing early; "precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias"

primitive

adj. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"

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inchoate

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