Incomplete; not fully planned or carefully considered, ill-conceived, unsound or badly thought-out; foolish or having no common sense.
Etymology:
- half- + baked
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The guy had some half-baked idea for getting rich in the stock market.
Submitted on July 10, 2018
Additional definitions for 'half-baked':
half-baked | Partially cooked by heating in an oven. |
half-baked | Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: Partially cooked by heating in an oven. |
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