inchoate

[Bailey]

in·cho·ate(n-kt)
adj.
1. In an initial or early stage; incipient.
2. Imperfectly formed or developed: a vague, inchoate idea.


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



in·choate·ly adv.
in·choate·ness n.

mark focused-clear-un-inchoate Bailey

[Perry]

Incohate ideas are often incoherent.