semifinished

[sem-ee-fin-isht, sem-ahy-]

adjective

1. partially or almost finished. finished.

2. (of a manufactured object) being in a form suitable for working easily into a finished finished product.

Word History and Origins

Origin of semifinished¹

First recorded in 1900–05; semi- + finished

Example Sentences

A spa day, a sound bath, a moving meditation and an initiation into strange and tentacled rites, “Bottom of the Ocean,” an immersive experience staged in a semifinished Brooklyn basement, ranks as the weirdest show in town right now, in a town that doesn’t lack for weird.

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European producers would be allowed to ship 18,000 metric tons of unwrought aluminum, which often comes in the form of ingots, and 366,000 metric tons of wrought or semifinished aluminum into the United States each year, while volumes above that would be charged a 10 percent tariff, the commerce department said.

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After he decided to abandon it, Michelangelo gifted the sculpture to his servant Antonio da Casteldurante, who entrusted it to Tiberio Calcagni, one of Michelangelo’s pupils and sometime collaborator, who reworked the statue into the semifinished state it is now in.

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When Elizabeth Goode and her partner, James, bought their home in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood in January, they knew right away they wanted to renovate the semifinished basement.

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“It was semifinished when we moved in, but we never really made the most of it,” Groset says.

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