inchoate
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Just begun and so not yet fully formed or developed.
She struggled to articulate the inchoate ideas still taking shape in her mind.
Law adjective
Describing a crime that is begun or agreed to but not carried through, such as attempt or conspiracy.
These are inchoate offenses; no bank was ever robbed, only planned.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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