inchoate

Etymology
From, perfect passive participle of. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation
As a noun or an adjective: As a verb:

Adjective

 * 1) Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
 * 2) Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.
 * 3)  Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.
 * 4) * 2006, United States v. McKenney, 450 F.3d 39 (1st Cir. 2006)
 * Congress considers the inchoate offenses of attempt and conspiracy, even conspiracy without an overt act, to be just as serious as the federal substantive drug offenses which they contemplate.
 * 1) Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.
 * 2)  Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.
 * 3) * 2006, United States v. McKenney, 450 F.3d 39 (1st Cir. 2006)
 * Congress considers the inchoate offenses of attempt and conspiracy, even conspiracy without an overt act, to be just as serious as the federal substantive drug offenses which they contemplate.
 * 1) Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.
 * 2)  Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.
 * 3) * 2006, United States v. McKenney, 450 F.3d 39 (1st Cir. 2006)
 * Congress considers the inchoate offenses of attempt and conspiracy, even conspiracy without an overt act, to be just as serious as the federal substantive drug offenses which they contemplate.
 * 1)  Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.
 * 2) * 2006, United States v. McKenney, 450 F.3d 39 (1st Cir. 2006)
 * Congress considers the inchoate offenses of attempt and conspiracy, even conspiracy without an overt act, to be just as serious as the federal substantive drug offenses which they contemplate.
 * 1) * 2006, United States v. McKenney, 450 F.3d 39 (1st Cir. 2006)
 * Congress considers the inchoate offenses of attempt and conspiracy, even conspiracy without an overt act, to be just as serious as the federal substantive drug offenses which they contemplate.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: nevyzrálý, nevyvinutý, jsoucí v zárodku, rodící se,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ; alullaan oleva,
 * French:
 * German: im Entstehen begriffen, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 無感性な
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: uutviklet, embryonisk
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: začet,
 * Spanish: embrional,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:, jäsentymätön
 * German:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: usammenhengende, springende, kaotisk
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, spetljana,
 * Spanish: ;

Noun

 * 1)  A beginning, an immature start.

Verb

 * 1)  To begin or start (something).
 * 2)  To cause or bring about.  In the field of criminology, to encourage, assist, conspire, aid and abet, incite, etc.
 * 3)  To make a start.