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choate

choate adjective: complete, fully formed.

Adjective

choate (comparative more choate, superlative most choate)

  1. Complete, fully formed.
    • 1988 [Routledge], Anthony O'Hear, The Element of Fire: Science, Art and the Human World, 2014, Taylor & Francis (Routledge Revivals), page 119,
      The abandonment of style in art is less likely to lead to an authentic expression of one's actual feelings than to a self-dramatising display of adolescent...
    • Unlike this particular image of Emerson's, however, Bloom's visions are more particularized and more choate in the grimness of his tone.1996, Orrin N. C. Wang, “Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory”, in Paperback, Johns Hopkins University Press, published 2000, page 180

Proper noun capitalized: Choate

Choate (plural Choates)

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of choate

Forms of choate

Adjective
comparativemore choate
superlativemost choate
Proper noun
pluralChoates

Origin of choate

By back-formation from inchoate.

Questions about choate

What does choate mean?
Choate means complete, fully formed.
What part of speech is choate?
Choate can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near choate in the dictionary

  1. choanosomes
  2. choanozoa
  3. choanozoan
  4. choanozoans
  5. Choat
  6. choate
  7. Choates
  8. choatropic
  9. Choats
  10. chobadar
  11. chobadars

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