- baked, half-
- Incomplete. Muddled. Not fully thought out.
A concise dictionary of English slang (2nd edition) . Brian Phythian. 2015.
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half-baked — a. 1. Insufficiently or poorly planned or thought out; impractical or unrealistic; as, a half baked proposal; half baked ideas; of plans, theories, proposals, etc. [PJC] 2. Insufficiently cooked; of food. [PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
half cocked — Synonyms and related words: a bit previous, adolescent, advanced, amateur, amateurish, at half cock, callow, dabbling, dilettante, dilettantish, far ahead, fledgling, forward, green, half assed, half baked, half grown, hasty, ill considered, ill… … Moby Thesaurus
half assed — Synonyms and related words: amateur, amateurish, artless, botched, bungling, clumsy, dabbling, defective, deficient, dilettante, dilettantish, half baked, half cocked, haphazard, hit and miss, hit or miss, immature, inadept, inadequate, inapt,… … Moby Thesaurus
half-baked — adj informal a half baked idea, suggestion, plan etc has not been properly planned ▪ He s always coming out with these half baked ideas which will never work … Dictionary of contemporary English
half-baked — half′ baked′ adj. 1) insufficiently cooked 2) not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared: a half baked proposal[/ex] 3) lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic: half baked theorists[/ex] • Etymology: 1615–25 … From formal English to slang
half-baked — [haf′bākt΄] adj. 1. only partly baked 2. not completely planned or thought out [a half baked scheme] 3. having or showing little intelligence and experience … English World dictionary
half-baked — [ ,hæf beıkt ] adjective INFORMAL a half baked idea or plan is not practical because it has not been thought about carefully … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
half-baked — A half baked idea or scheme hasn t not been thought through or planned very well … The small dictionary of idiomes
half-baked — (adj.) 1620s as underdone; 1855 in sense of silly … Etymology dictionary
half-baked — [adj] stupid; not thought through backward, batty*, birdbrained*, blockheaded*, boneheaded*, brainless, crazy, dumb, feebleminded, foolish, harebrained*, idiotic, ignorant, ill conceived, imbecilic, impractical, indiscreet, moronic, poorly… … New thesaurus
