Ii: Inchoate

adj.

1. In an initial or early stage; incipient.

2. Imperfectly formed or developed: a vague, inchoate idea.

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[Latin inchotus, past participle of inchore, to begin, alteration of incohre : in-, in; see in-² + cohum, strap from yoke to harness.]

Then his eyes went muddy, as if he had lost his grip on the inchoate thought.

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