How do you use Inchoate in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like incipient or early, plus the exact meaning.
Inchoate in a sentence
Inchoate meaning
- Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
- Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.
- Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.
Using Inchoate
- The main meaning on this page is: Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature. | Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling. | Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.
- Useful related words include: incipient, early.
- In the example corpus, inchoate often appears in combinations such as: an inchoate.
Context around Inchoate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Inchoate
- In this selection, "inchoate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wonky, resemble, ballad, mass and rage stand out and add context to how "inchoate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include agenda was inchoate to say and and an inchoate army of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "inchoate" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with inchoate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Toby Creswell argues that the "Sex Pistols' agenda was inchoate, to say the least. (14 words)
Two of these attacks led to a watershed event in Lebanon's inchoate civil war. (15 words)
The mai employed his mounted bodyguard and an inchoate army of nobles to extend Kanem's authority into Borno. (19 words)
Huttenlocher, DanielResistance to a US-stoked or -supported world war may be inchoate, but it is as effective in its decentralized gelatinous form as it would be if there was a well-defined global opposition to US stupidity. (38 words)
The Horus Heresy: Legions (say what?) looked like trash—not in a uniquely bad way, but in the way all free-to-play smartphone games appear at first to resemble inchoate messes. (32 words)
FormlessOne: I've been avoiding this one because, by all that is right, I don't know where to start without launching into an inchoate, rage-inducing rant. (28 words)
Example sentences (8)
Huttenlocher, DanielResistance to a US-stoked or -supported world war may be inchoate, but it is as effective in its decentralized gelatinous form as it would be if there was a well-defined global opposition to US stupidity.
We need to believe that the song began as the promising but wonky, inchoate ballad that Jimmy teaches bored stand-in Guy in their practice garage.
The mixture is pounded into an inchoate mass that tugs like marshmallow, then stretched and rolled into logs under a shower of pistachios.
FormlessOne: I've been avoiding this one because, by all that is right, I don't know where to start without launching into an inchoate, rage-inducing rant.
The Horus Heresy: Legions (say what?) looked like trash—not in a uniquely bad way, but in the way all free-to-play smartphone games appear at first to resemble inchoate messes.
The mai employed his mounted bodyguard and an inchoate army of nobles to extend Kanem's authority into Borno.
Toby Creswell argues that the "Sex Pistols' agenda was inchoate, to say the least.
Two of these attacks led to a watershed event in Lebanon's inchoate civil war.
Common combinations with inchoate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an inchoate 3×