How to pronounce inchoate
American English pronunciation
in-KOH-it
- IPA
- /ɪnˈkoʊɪt/
- Syllables
- in · KOH · it (3 syllables, stress on the 2nd)
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What inchoate means
Just begun and not yet fully formed
In a sentence: She had an inchoate idea for a story but no ending yet.
Where it comes from: It comes from a Latin word meaning just begun or unfinished, from a verb meaning to begin. The adjective was first seen in 1534.
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