inchoately

Definitions

In a manner that is just beginning to develop or form; incipiently.

In a confused, disorganized, or incoherent way.

Examples

He struggled to express his grief, which remained inchoately formed in his mind.

The young artist felt an inchoately defined ambition to change the world through her paintings.

She sensed an inchoately growing resentment among the staff, though no one had voiced a formal complaint.

Synonyms

vaguely imprecisely fuzzily indistinctly amorphous rudimentarily nebulously

Antonyms

clearly precisely distinctly definitely explicitly coherently articulate