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half termhalf the battle
half thickness
Half tide
Half time
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half title
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Half truth
half volley
Half year
half-and-half
half-and-half dressing
half-assed
half-blood
Half-blooded
Half-boot
half-bound
Half-breadth plan
Half-bred
half-breed
half-brother
Half-cap
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half-century
Half-clammed
half-clothed
half-cock
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
adj
1: foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working" [syn: crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded]
2: insufficiently cooked [syn: half-baked, underdone]
Merriam Webster's
adjective Date: 16211. a. poorly developed or carried out< a half-baked idea >< half-baked research >b. lacking adequate planning or forethought< a half-baked scheme for getting rich >c. lacking in judgment, intelligence, or common sense 2. imperfectly baked; underdone
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
If you describe an idea or plan as half-baked, you mean that it has not been properly thought out, and so is stupid or impractical. This is another half-baked scheme that isn't going to work... ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]
