Inchoate



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj. 刚开始的; 未发展的
• ［英］ adj. 刚开始的 ( just begun; incipient) ; 未发展的 ( not yet completed or fully developed)
• ［记］ in ( 进入) +choate ( 开始) -> 刚开始的; 分割记忆: inch ( 寸) +oat ( 燕麦) +e, 燕麦刚长一寸 -> 初期的, 不成熟的

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Etymology: Latin inchoatus, past participle of inchoare to start work on, perhaps from in- + cohum part of a yoke to which the beam of a plow is fitted
• Date: 1534
• being only partly in existence or operation ; incipient; especially imperfectly formed or formulated ; formless, incoherent <misty, inchoate suspicions that all is not well with the nation — J. M. Perry>
• ? inchoately adverb
• ? inchoateness noun

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