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half track |
half truth |
half volley |
half-and-half |
half-and-half dressing |
half-baked
| half-blooded
| half-boot
| half-bound
| half-bred
| half-breed
half-baked
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective half-baked has 2 senses
- half-baked(s = adj.all) crazy, screwball, softheaded - foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"
- half-baked(s = adj.all) underdone - insufficiently cooked; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
half-baked, a.
- Insufficiently or poorly planned or thought out; impractical or unrealistic; as, a half-baked proposal; half-baked ideas; -- of plans, theories, proposals, etc. [PJC]
- Insufficiently cooked; -- of food. [PJC]
ROGET THESAURUS
half-baked
Noncompletion
N noncompletion, nonfulfillment, shortcoming, incompleteness, drawn battle, drawn game, work of Penelope, nonperformance, inexecution, neglect, not completed, incomplete, uncompleted, unfinished, unaccomplished, unperformed, unexecuted, sketchy, addle, in progress, in hand, ongoing, going on, proceeding, on one's hands, on the anvil, in the fire, in the oven, parboiled, half-baked, re infecta.
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