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单词 inchoate
释义
inchoate
adjective
literary
uk
/ɪnˈkəʊ.eɪt/us
/ɪnˈkoʊ.eɪt/
onlyrecentlyorpartlyformed, or notcompletelydevelopedorclear:
才开始的；不完全的；未发展完善的
She had a child's inchoateawarenessoflanguage.她具有儿童对语言的初步意识。
Synonyms
basic
crude(SIMPLE)
elementary
rough(POOR QUALITY)
roughand ready
rude(SIMPLE)old useorliterary
rudimentaryformal
simple(PLAIN)
undeveloped
unrefined
unsophisticated
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Uncertainty
  • amorphous
  • arguable
  • be neither fish nor fowlidiom
  • blurred
  • blurry
  • circumstantial
  • conflicted
  • dodgy
  • insecurely
  • insecurity
  • it remains to be seenidiom
  • it's early daysidiom
  • joker in the packidiom
  • spec
  • sputter
  • squishy
  • stutter
  • swither
  • tentative
  • unwritten
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(Definition ofinchoatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinchoate

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Feeling is an "inchoatequality" (155) of country songs, involving both verbal cleverness and a sense of embodied movement.
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This configuration of agency presumes that, at some point, ownership entailed the transformation of theinchoateinto the cultivated.
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It can lead to distorted views of the ways in which the imperial state actually operated, in all itsinchoateand fractured complexity.
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Few are interested in the open-ended,inchoaterural community.
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Perhaps, turning the argument around, selection favored those children who were capable of turninginchoatevocalizations into structured linguistic elements.
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Analyses of cohesion on committees, ofinchoateparty systems, or of weak multiparty systems are three examples where the impact will be greatest.
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But positive law is aninchoateor incomplete form of law as practical reasonableness.
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We permit active abandonment because until the last act, there is always a genuine chance that theinchoatecriminal does not "really" mean it.
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In sum, except for the criminalization of "last-act" cases,inchoatecriminality is largely preemptive, rather than a response to behavior that itself risks harming others.
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Parties institutionalized citizenship by organizing the electorate for the civic rituals of voting and by transmutinginchoatedemands into law and policy.
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For instance, while children have rights, they are largelyinchoateor exercised by adults on their behalf.
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Malaysian political culture remainsinchoateand underdeveloped from a democratic standpoint and is still somewhat short of the values and spirit needed for democratic consolidation.
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Perhaps equal concern is a theory of justice in aninchoateform, a theory of justice that other more sophisticated theories incorporate and extend?
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Other kinds of coordination of actions, such as coordination by positive law, are incomplete orinchoate.
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Record an urban streetscape without motor traffic and most of what you take away isinchoaterumble.
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