inchoative

Other forms of inchoative

plural

inchoatives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inchoative

What does inchoative mean?

inchoative means "aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inchoative?

inchoative has 4 syllables: in-cho-a-tive. The stress falls on "cho".

What is another word for inchoative?

Close synonyms include inchoative aspect, inceptive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inchoative a common word?

inchoative is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.