half-baked
- insufficiently cooked.
- not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared: a half-baked proposal for tax reform.
- lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic.
Origin of half-baked
Related Words for half-baked
witless, idiotic, ill-conceived, backward, batty, brainless, crazy, dumb, foolish, harebrained, ignorant, impractical, indiscreet, moronic, retarded, senseless, short-sighted, silly, slow, sophomoricExamples from the Web for half-baked
Contemporary Examples of half-baked
"The ideas were good, but they were half-baked," one senior staffer explained.
Then there were those songs that were either too half-baked or half-hearted to even fool us into turning them into smash hits.
But the anti-Stalinism competes with half-baked fantasies about a better tomorrow.
The coverage was too busy with hashtags and a half-baked hyperfocus on TeamUSA.
Ultimately, this is a Christmas of no-bake cookies, half-baked theology, and pre-packaged Christmas stories.
Historical Examples of half-baked
And so he is; he's like yourself, he's only half-baked, the half thick.
The Shadow of a CrimeHall Caine
And is not the half-baked designer in as sorry a plight as the half-baked artist of any kind?
College TeachingPaul Klapper
As this sago is half-baked in this operation, it will keep for a very long time.
Chatterbox, 1905.Various
More than a dozen bodies lay upon it, half-baked, half-roasted!
The Scalp HuntersMayne Reid
If not, it is wiser to defer than to offer a half-baked opinion.
The Armed Forces OfficerU. S. Department of Defense
half-baked
- insufficiently baked
- informal foolish; stupid
- informal poorly planned or conceived