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单词 half-baked
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half-baked


half-baked

(hăf′bākt′, häf′-)adj.1. Only partly baked.2. Informal a. Insufficiently thought out; ill-conceived: a half-baked scheme.b. Exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense: a half-baked visionary.

half-baked

adj 1. (Cookery) insufficiently baked 2. informal foolish; stupid 3. informal poorly planned or conceived

half′-baked′



adj. 1. insufficiently cooked. 2. not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared: a half-baked proposal. 3. lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic: half-baked theorists. [1615–25]
Thesaurus
Adj.1.half-baked - foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"screwball, softheaded, crazycolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechimpractical - not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution"
2.half-baked - insufficiently cookedhalf-baked - insufficiently cooked underdoneraw - not treated with heat to prepare it for eating

half-baked

adjective (Informal) stupid, impractical, crazy, silly, foolish, senseless, short-sighted, inane, loopy (informal), ill-conceived, crackpot (informal), ill-judged, brainless, unformed, poorly planned, harebrained, dumb-ass (slang), unthought out or through another half-baked scheme that isn't going to work
Translations

half-baked


half-baked

Ill-conceived; not well thought out or planned. Likened to something that has only cooked in the oven for half the time necessary. Stop coming up with these half-baked schemes! They'll never work! I could tell the project was only half-baked from the beginning, but I kept my head down and said nothing.

half-baked

1. mod. badly thought out. It would have been approved if it weren’t so half-baked. 2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. Fred got himself sort of half-baked every Saturday night.

half-baked


  • adj

Synonyms for half-baked

adj stupid

Synonyms

  • stupid
  • impractical
  • crazy
  • silly
  • foolish
  • senseless
  • short-sighted
  • inane
  • loopy
  • ill-conceived
  • crackpot
  • ill-judged
  • brainless
  • unformed
  • poorly planned
  • harebrained
  • dumb-ass
  • unthought out or through

Synonyms for half-baked

adj foolish

Synonyms

  • screwball
  • softheaded
  • crazy

Related Words

  • colloquialism
  • impractical

adj insufficiently cooked

Synonyms

  • underdone

Related Words

  • raw
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