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Inchoate vs Preliminary - What's the difference?

inchoate | preliminary |

As adjectives the difference between inchoate and preliminary

is that inchoate is recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature while preliminary is in preparation for the main matter; initial, introductory, preparatory.

As nouns the difference between inchoate and preliminary

is that inchoate is (rare) a beginning, an immature start while preliminary is a preparation for a main matter; an introduction.

As a verb inchoate

is to begin or start something.

inchoate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
  • * Raleigh
  • neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate
  • Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.
  • Quotations

    {{timeline, 1600s=1677, 1800s=1803 1839 1885 1892, 1900s=1919 1928, 2000s=2004}} * 1677 , , The Art of Contentment , p. 187 *: It do's indeed perfect and crown tho?e graces which were here inchoate and begun, but no mans conver?ion ever ?ucceeded his being there ... * 1803 , *: This appointment is evidenced by an open, unequivocal act, and, being the last act required from the person making it, necessarily excludes the idea of its being, so far as it respects the appointment, an inchoate and incomplete transaction. * 1839 , *: It being determined that a constitution should be made for the inchoate government, men were selected by its sponsors, from those at the Illinois Camp Ground, including as many western Cherokees as could be induced to sign it. * 1885 , *: ...unfortunately, we have to face inchoate schemes which will demand the utmost jealousy and vigilance of Parliament. * *: The private conception of any breach of law is apt to be inspiriting, for the scheme (while yet inchoate ) wears dashing and attractive colours. * 1892 , George Gissing, Born In Exile *: A youth whose brain glowed like a furnace, whose heart throbbed with tumult of high ambitions, of inchoate desires. * 1919 , *: Very odd and ugly were these beings, as indeed are most beings of a world yet inchoate and rudely fashioned. * 1928 , *: How inutterably sad was the look this fluid inchoate figure of the wolf threw from his beautiful shy eyes. * 2004 , , " Folk Hero]", [[w:The New Yorker, The New Yorker] , 29 March 2004 *: Guthrie’s inchoate socialist leanings grew into a deep commitment to the labor movement.

    Synonyms

    * (started but not fully formed): elementary, embryonic, immature, incipient, nascent, rudimentary

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A beginning, an immature start.
  • Verb

    (inchoat)
  • To begin or start something.
  • To cause or bring about.
  • To make a start.
  • Anagrams

    * * ----

    preliminary

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • in preparation for the main matter; initial, introductory, preparatory
  • These are just the preliminary results.
  • *
  • And then, after a few preliminary tries, the whole farm burst out into 'Beasts of England' in tremendous unison.

    Antonyms

    * definitive, final

    Derived terms

    * preliminarily * preliminary results * preliminary considerations

    Noun

    (preliminaries)
  • A preparation for a main matter; an introduction
  • Any of a series of sports events that determine the finalists
  • A relatively minor contest that precedes a major one, especially in boxing