inchoate

inchoate has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• a.. Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.
• v. t.. To begin.
• a.. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"