half-baked
AdjectiveUS[haf-beykt]/ˈhæfˌbeɪkt/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adjective (2)
- foolish; totally unsound“a crazy scheme”“half-baked ideas”“a screwball proposal without a prayer of working”Synonyms: crazyscrewballsoftheadedOpposite practicalSimilar impractical
- insufficiently cookedSynonyms: underdoneOpposite cookedSimilar raw
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
half-baked adjective
1. Insufficiently or poorly planned or thought out; impractical or unrealistic; as, a half-baked proposal; half-baked ideas; — of plans, theories, proposals, etc.
2. Insufficiently cooked; — of food.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors