inchoative

adjective

Definition of inchoativenext
as in initial

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inchoative
  1. initial
  2. first
  3. formative
  4. inchoate
  5. original
  6. incipient
  7. nascent
  8. fundamental
Adjective
  • Assuming an initial retail price of $25 per month, or $300 per year, Fishman sees the new platform generating some $259 million in incremental revenue in 2026, given a base of 1 million paying customers.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • But when things take a trippy turn during their initial make-out, they are suddenly doomed to relive the same day over and again, Groundhog Day-style.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of initial
Adjective
  • With the first season deemed successful and warmly received, the prospect of merging these two racing entities has become a possibility.
    Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The album cracked the top 10 on the Billboard 200 in March 1971, becoming Streisand’s first top 10 album in more than four years.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of first
Adjective
  • For the current crop of Gen-Z fashion writers and creators, now in their mid-twenties, these games were a formative early experience with the internet’s capability to expand what fashion can be.
    Nicolaia Rips, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Some of the more affecting moments take place in this formative stage.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of formative
Adjective
  • In life, Nichols had been diminished to an abstraction, a target for the inchoate rage of men who were, at least nominally, part of his own community.
    Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Williams and his admirers were certainly right to point out the inchoate and woolly nature of much of the 'survival of the species' talk which was in the air in the mid-20th century.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2011
Definition of inchoate
Adjective
  • Thick, deeply flavorful and less cloying than the original, this vegan rendition ($9) uses Shields’s date crystals, chewy pieces of fresh date, soy ice cream and banana.
    Freda Moon, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The story mirrors the original, following a fresh batch of desperate have-nots competing in elementary school games with a sizable fortune for the winners and pitiless execution for the losers.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of original
Adjective
  • The first efforts to contend with the issue of prostitution in America were, Payne shows, influenced by British campaigners who drew strength from incipient feminist activity but who also rooted themselves in the anti-slavery movement.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Soon, Caserta was something of an unofficial clothier to the freaks and runaways and incipient rock stars who had begun to populate the area.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of incipient
Adjective
  • Since the use of satellite imagery as data is fairly nascent, scientists continue to fine-tune their models, tools and techniques to extract the greatest insights out of this form of data.
    Carlos Melendez, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Two votes mean twice as much time for companies to hassle workers, while putting an undue burden on the nascent union, Danielson said.
    Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of nascent
Adjective
  • This shift requires comprehensive training and a fundamental change in mindset across the organization.
    Danny Jenkins, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Another was revealing the math that would show nature’s multiple fundamental forces to be just different offspring of one unified force.
    Tom Siegfried, JSTOR Daily, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of fundamental
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