half-baked

[ haf-beykt, hahf- ]

/ ˈhæfˈbeɪkt, ˈhɑf- /

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adjective

insufficiently cooked.

not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared: a half-baked proposal for tax reform.

lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic.

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Origin of half-baked

First recorded in 1615–25

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"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.
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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

half-baked

adjective

insufficiently baked

informal foolish; stupid

informal poorly planned or conceived

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Word Origin and History for half-baked

half-baked

adj.

1620s as "underdone;" 1855 in sense of "silly;" see half + bake (v.).

half-baked

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