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[ haf-beykt, hahf- ] / ˈhæfˈbeɪkt, ˈhɑf- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR half-baked ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveinsufficiently cooked. not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared: a half-baked proposal for tax reform. lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic. Origin of half-bakedFirst recorded in 1615–25 Words nearby half-bakedhalf-arsed, half-asleep, half-assed, half-awake, halfback, half-baked, half-ball, half bath, halfbeak, half binding, half-blind Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for half-baked"The ideas were good, but they were half-baked," one senior staffer explained. Special Ops Commander Swears: I Won't Be Hillary's VP|Kimberly Dozier|August 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Then there were those songs that were either too half-baked or half-hearted to even fool us into turning them into smash hits. Can Jessie J’s ‘Bang Bang’ Save Us From This Awful Musical Summer?|Kevin Fallon|July 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST But the anti-Stalinism competes with half-baked fantasies about a better tomorrow. This 1979 Novel Predicted Putin’s Invasion Of Crimea|Michael Weiss|May 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST The coverage was too busy with hashtags and a half-baked hyperfocus on TeamUSA. The Good, the Bad, and the Pink Eye|Brett Singer|February 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Ultimately, this is a Christmas of no-bake cookies, half-baked theology, and pre-packaged Christmas stories. Sarah Palin Is Here to Save Christmas, Thank God|Candida Moss|November 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST He is doing the same thing now with all this peace talk and half-baked socialism. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines|Margaret O'Bannon Womack Vandercook Earthen vases, half-baked, are found near the mapires, or baskets: they appear to contain the bones of the same family. The Natural History of the Varieties of Man|Robert Gordon Latham The Austrians would have brought a like leaven into the lump of half-baked German civilisation. The New Germany|George Young And is not the half-baked designer in as sorry a plight as the half-baked artist of any kind? College Teaching|Paul Klapper It will contain some half-baked scheme to pacify the miners at the expense of the general welfare. The Secret Places of the Heart|H. G. Wells
British Dictionary definitions for half-baked
adjectiveinsufficiently baked informal foolish; stupid informal poorly planned or conceived Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to half-bakedwitless, idiotic, ill-conceived, backward, batty, brainless, crazy, dumb, foolish, harebrained, ignorant, impractical, indiscreet, moronic, retarded, senseless, short-sighted, silly, slow, sophomoric |