(a.) Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb.
(n.) An inchoative verb. See Inceptive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contemporary biological psychiatry is in a seemingly inchoate state.
(2) The film-maker maunders about inchoately in the documentary, showing a "different" slice of life, and at one stage trots out the extraordinary defence that if he hadn't done it, someone else would have.
(3) Such analysis is done in well-documented and apparently logical form by the utilities and in a rather more inchoate but not necessarily less accurate form by the public.
(4) The detectable AChE activity at this age is apparently found in inchoate layers 1-2 and 4-5.
(5) The painful reality for the party is that its leader cobbled together an inchoate platform that masked fierce ideological differences in the ranks and hoped to steer it through an electoral window opened up by Lib Dem collapse and Ukip insurgency.
(6) Images inchoate and nonsensical, my arms and legs seemingly elongated and embalmed in grease, the sense of utter isolation while being gnawed by rats.
(7) The information and study was at an inchoate stage; therefore, further comparison and interpretation are needed to assess the findings.
(8) Attachment is fascinating as an idea; when it hardens into science, which is inchoate but treated as fact, its consequences can be devastating.
(9) But though, in interviews with the Guardian, young activists focused their anger on Jamaat-e-Islami, which they called "the terrorist group", a series of more inchoate discontents underpinned the movement too.
(10) The other challenge to Cameron, Miliband and Clegg and anyone who hopes to step into their shoes, is that the quarrel between the two firebrands reflects inchoate though powerful undercurrents.
(11) He incorporates within his writing both his stunning and at times crippling intellectual powers and his dark inchoate mournful passion and remorse.
(12) He started with a call for military action, then veered into a prayer for diplomacy before trailing off into an inchoate “stay tuned” denouement.
(13) More recent criticism has emphasised Holden's inchoate desire for something purer and truer than the cruelty and "phoniness" of the unredeemed world.
(14) Given the spontaneous, geographically diverse and inchoate nature of these disturbances, there was never a credible single cause.
(15) Obese entitlement and inchoate bluster; but white as they are white.
(16) Public sentiment whipsawed between unimaginable grief and inchoate rage, and the NRA provided a concrete proposal whose very outlandishness contained a glimmer of hope: no one has ever before seriously proposed weaponizing public schools.
(17) Many of us brood on the abyss – the sense that, in some large, inchoate way, we are nearing the end of life as we know it.
(18) In Uganda there is an inchoate revolution struggling to be born.
(19) Yes, there was some resistance to Putin’s increasing control, but the opposition – inchoate, confused and conflicted – was easily undermined.
(20) Political struggle for a better world has given way to inchoate identity-driven rage.
Unformed
Definition:
(a.) Decomposed, or resolved into parts; having the form destroyed.
(a.) Not formed; not arranged into regular shape, order, or relations; shapeless; amorphous.
(a.) Unorganized; without definite shape or structure; as, an unformed, or unorganized, ferment.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
(2) "There's been a continuum to my career, of looking for a new exciting opportunity to take something that's still quite unformed, and help piece it together."
(3) Fifty per cent of the U.S. students with diarrhea had "severe" illness (greater than or equal to 10 unformed stools in first 48 hours) compared to 23% of the Latin Americans.
(4) In the case of an unformed dream the duration of the dream was shown to be adequately estimated, the EEF and ESCoG patterns to be rather variable, and correlation between the bioelectric activities of different structures to be nearly absent.
(5) Hallucinations were either unformed (for example, bright lights, straight lines) or highly formed (for example, faces), in which case they were invariably recognized by the patient as inappropriate.
(6) No significant differences in the average number of unformed stools passed during the seven days after vaccination were noted in vaccinees versus controls.
(7) To identify unformed disulfide bonds, nonreduced folding intermediates were treated with trypsin to liberate non-disulfide-bound, [35S]cysteine-containing peptides from the disulfide-linked peptides.
(8) Mild to moderately ill persons (three to six unformed stools in 24 hours) can be treated with a drug that acts nonspecifically, such as bismuth subsalicylate or loperamide.
(9) Fallon was also unclear about the identity of the ground troops that would occupy territory currently occupied by Islamic State in Syria if airstrikes drove the militants from their base, referring simply to local troops or an as-yet-unformed new Syrian government.
(10) While the party’s leading presidential contender completed the second day of her New Hampshire campaign swing, lawmakers back in Washington were seeking to shape her largely unformed policy agenda by pushing it to go beyond a focus on subsidising community colleges that has already been adopted by Barack Obama.
(11) At this stage the sporocyst wall was still unformed.
(12) Giardia trophozoites, Trichomonas hominis, Chilomastix mesnili, Entamoeba histolytica, Blastocystis hominis and Hymenolepis nana were all significantly associated with unformed stools and reports of diarrhoea.
(13) Diarrhea was significantly observed more in the watery or watery-whitish unformed ones than in other diarrhea.
(14) The proportion of unformed stools was also decreased, but to a lesser extent (p less than 0.05) in those taking olsalazine (78% v 55%; p less than 0.001) compared with those taking sulphasalazine (72% v 28%; p less than 0.001).
(15) One patient reported only simple unformed hallucinations, which are a well-documented phenomenon occurring in lesions compressing the optic nerves and chiasm.
(16) These observations suggest that the different segments of Physarum DNA from which foldback structures are derived contain nucleotide sequences that share a highly ordered and unform pattern of structural organisation.
(17) Loperamide significantly reduced stool frequency compared with attapulgite, particularly within the first 12-hour period following the start of therapy, and significantly shortened the mean time to last unformed stool (loperamide, 14.2 hours, versus attapulgite, 19.5 hours).
(18) Diarrhea is defined as the passage of three or more unformed stools per day plus--in all patients except infants--one or more signs or symptoms of enteric infection.
(19) Problems of the correction of indices of protein and water-electrolyte metabolism in unformed fistulas of the small intestine were studied in 44 patients.
(20) In acute diarrhoea, loperamide provides more rapid control of symptoms than diphenoxylate when given in a flexible dosage according to unformed bowel movements, and in single dose studies 4mg loperamide has a much longer duration of effect than 5mg diphenoxylate.