Half-baked

Definitions: Half-baked

Half-baked

Adjective

1. (informal) foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical solution"; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working".

2. Insufficiently cooked.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "half-baked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Half-baked

Noncompletion

Parboiled, half-baked.

Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! (Repo Man; writing credit: Alex Cox)

Half-Baked Alaska (1965)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Growing Seasons: Half-Baked Garden Tips, Cheap Advice on Marriage, and Questionable Theories on Motherhood (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i papjekur (childish, immature, raw, slack-baked, unbacked, unbaked, uncooked, underripe, unripe, unseasoned), i papërvojë (callow, greener, inexperienced, raw, sucking, unexperienced, unpractical, unpractised, unschooled, unskilled, unsophisticated, unversed), i pambaruar (half-done, incondite, unclosed, unfinished), i cekët (facile, shallow, shoal, superficial). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فطير نصف مخبوز, ‏نصف إستواء, ‏غير ناضج (boyish, embryonic, immature, newness, unripe, yeasty). (various references)

Bulgarian 

несериозен (easy, fly-by-night, futile, light, pococurante, superficial), недообмислен, недозрял (green, immature, unbaked, unfledged, unripe), недопечен (doughy, half-done, rare, raw, samel, slack-baked, sodden, underdone), полусуров (half cooked, half-done). (various references)

Czech

nedovařený (rare, underdone), nedopeèený (underdone), nedomýšlený, napùl upeèený. (various references)

French

� moitié cuit. (various references)

German

unausgesetzt (callow, constant, continual, incessant). (various references)

Greek 

μισοψημένοσ (medium, rare, underdone), ατελήσ (deficient, imperfect, inchoate, incomplete, sketchy). (various references)

Hungarian

sületlen (fooling about, sodden, soggy, vapid). (various references)

Italian

immaturo (callow, crude, immature, juvenile, unripe, untimely), cotto a met� . (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

半焼け (half-burnt, half-done, rare). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

は�"やけ (half-burnt, half-done, rare). (various references)

Manx

lieh fuinnit. (various references)

Pig Latin

alf-bakedhay.(various references)

Portuguese

meio-de-campo, meio assado, inexperiente (artless, callow, fresh, green, inexperienced, muff, out and out, raw, shirt-sleeve, sucking, unpractised, unskilful, unskilled, unsophisticated, untrained, verdant, young). (various references)

Romanian

necopt (crude, green, immature, raw, sodden, sour, unripe). (various references)

Russian 

неопытный (callow, fresh, green, inexperienced, inexpert, new, sucking, unexperienced, uninitiated, unpractised, unversed), незрелый (crude, embryonic, green, immature, puerile, raw, unbaked, unripe, verdant), недопеченный, полусырой (rare). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

polupečen. (various references)

Spanish

mal concebido (halfbaked). (various references)

Swedish

halvstekt (rare, underdone), knasig (barmy, Batty, dippy, draft, fruity, gaga, kookie, kooky, Loopy, mental, nutty, off one's head, off one's nuts, potty, scatty, screwy, touched, wacky, wet). (various references)

Thai

ครึ่งๆ กลางๆ. (various references)

Turkish

yarı pişmiş, deneyimsiz (illiterate, inexperienced, inexpert, raw, unpracticed, unpractised, unskilled, unsophisticated), düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact, witless), aptalca (crazy, fatuously, fondly, foolish, foolishly, footling, idiotic, ill-considered, inept, stupidly), acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, Prentice, punk, raw, recruit, runnynose, simple, stooge, strange, stranger, sucking, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job), çiğ (raw, unbaked, uncooked). (various references)

Ukranian 

нерозроблений, незрілий (callow, childish, embryonic, green, immature, nascent, not ripe, puerile, under age, verdant), недопечений. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu kinh nghiệm; khờ dại, ngốc nghếch (dunderheaded, fatuous, fat-witted, half-witted, sap-headed, sappy, slap-happy), nướng chưa chín hẳn chưa chín chắn, còn non nớt (coltish, unfledged, unripe). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: halfbeak.

-2 letters: fadable.

-3 letters: balked, behalf, fabled, flaked, keblah.

-4 letters: aahed, ahead, akela, baaed, baked, baled, blade, bleak, fable, faked, flake, hadal, haled, kheda, laked.

-5 letters: abed, able, alae, alba, alef, alfa, baal, bade, bake, bald, bale, balk, bead, beak, blae, blah, bled, dahl, dale, deaf, deal, delf, dhak, dhal, fade, fake, feal, flab, flak, flea, fled, haaf, hade, haed, hake, hale, half, head, heal, held, kale, khaf, lade, lake, lakh, lead, leaf, leak.

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