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inchoate

adjective

Definitions of inchoate

English

used to describe a criminal offence that is preparatory to a further criminal offence eg the crime of conspiracy precedes a bank robbery planned by two or more people

Possession of an instrument of crime is an inchoate crime; it does not require the completion of a crime.

English

used to describe ideas, plans or beliefs etc that are only just starting to develop or form

The protests are largely inchoate and directionless.