Sekirov Dictionary

half-baked

UK /ˌhɑːfˈbeɪkt/US /ˌhæfˈbeɪkt/

adjective 4
noun 1
forms 5

adjective4

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(informal, figurative) Of a person or thing: incompletely developed or formed; not fully prepared or trained.
- And idolatrous parents hovv carefull they are to nuzzle vp their Posterity in Superstition and Idolatry; I vvould our profest Popelings, and halfe-baked Protestants, did not let vs see but too often. — 1621
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(informal, figurative) Of an idea or scheme; not carefully considered or fully planned; ill-conceived, unsound.
- The guy had some half-baked idea for getting rich in the stock market.
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(informal, figurative) Of a person: having no common sense or intelligence; foolish.
- [H]e treated his cousin as a sort of harmless lunatic, and, as they say in Devon, "half-baked." — 1855
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(informal, figurative) Of a person: mildly under the influence of alcohol, a drug, etc.
- If you need to talk to John tonight, try to catch him early in the evening, while he’s still only half-baked.

noun1

(dialect, informal) A foolish or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.

forms

half-bakeds · more half baked · more half-baked · most half baked · most half-baked

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