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half-baked

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half-baked (hfbkt, häf-)
adj.
1. Only partly baked.
2. Informal Insufficiently thought out; ill-conceived: a half-baked scheme.
3. Informal Exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense: a half-baked visionary.

half-baked
adj
1. (Cookery) insufficiently baked
2. Informal foolish; stupid
3. Informal poorly planned or conceived
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.half-baked - foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
impractical - not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution"
2.half-bakedhalf-baked - insufficiently cooked                
raw - not treated with heat to prepare it for eating

half-baked
adjective (Informal) stupid, impractical, crazy, silly, foolish, senseless, short-sighted, inane, loopy (informal), ill-conceived, crackpot (informal), ill-judged, brainless, unformed, poorly planned, harebrained, dumb-ass (slang), unthought out or through another half-baked scheme that isn't going to work
Translations
half-baked [ˈhɑːfˈbeɪkt] ADJ (fig) [plan, idea] → mal concebido, sin perfilar; [person] → soso
half-baked [ˌhɑːfˈbeɪkt] adj (fig) (fam) (idea, scheme) → mal combinato/a, che non sta in piedi
half-baked [ˌhɑːfˈbeɪkt] adj (fig) (fam) (idea, scheme) → mal combinato/a, che non sta in piedi


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Erstwhile worth-while fun and stunts seemed no longer worth while; and it was a torment to listen to the insipidities and stupidities of women, to the pompous, arrogant sayings of the little half-baked men.
- some childish notions, a few half-baked sentiments, a lot of undigested beauty, a great black mass of ignorance, a heart filled to bursting with love, and an ambition as big as your love and as futile as your ignorance.
He believed in sudden conversion, a belief which may be right, but which is peculiarly attractive to a half-baked mind.
 
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