inchoate🔊

Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature. +

Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling. +

(law) Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.

(rare) A beginning, an immature start.

To begin or start (something).

To cause or bring about.

To make a start.