- just begun; in the early stages; incipient; rudimentary
- not yet clearly or completely formed or organized; disordered
- Law not yet completed or made effective; pending
Origin of inchoate
Classical Latin inchoatus, incohatus, past participle of inchoare, incohare, to begin, origin, originally rural term “hitch up, harness” from in-, in + cohum, the strap from plow beam to yoke from Indo-European base an unverified form kagh-, to hold, enclose from source hedge