- insufficiently baked
- informal foolish; stupid
- informal poorly planned or conceived
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half-baked /ˈhæfˈbeɪkt/USA pronunciation
adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- not baked enough.
- not planned or prepared well enough:half-baked schemes.
- unrealistic:those half-baked theorists.
half-baked
(haf′bākt′, häf′-),USA pronunciation adj.
- insufficiently cooked.
- not completed;
insufficiently planned or prepared:a half-baked proposal for tax reform. - lacking mature judgment or experience;
unrealistic.
- 1615–25
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half-baked adj
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