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half-baked

4.1

Partly cooked so it is still raw inside

adjective
/ˈhæfˌbeɪkt/

: poco hecho

Who wants half-baked pizza, driven by a maniac who could mow down an innocent bystander just so you can have pizza in 30 minutes?

Examples

I was disappointed to find that the restaurant served me a half-baked lasagna that was still cold in the middle.
Mom would order it half-baked and unsliced and finish cooking it in our oven.

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Good grief, what a load of sour, lumpy, half-baked bread!

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The chef warned us that if we took the bread out too early, it would be half-baked and not rise properly.
After waiting for an hour, the pizza finally arrived, but it was sadly half-baked and doughy.

Synonyms

half-done

vshalf-baked

6 3.4

Only partly finished and not ready to use

is specifically about partial cooking rather than general incompletion

underdone

vshalf-baked

2 3.8

Food that is not cooked enough and is still raw inside

is more specific to partial oven cooking rather than general undercooking

underbaked

vshalf-baked

3.9

Not cooked long enough in the oven so the inside is still doughy

is broader, meaning partially cooked in general rather than oven specific

Antonyms

well-done

12 1.6

Cooked all the way through with no pink inside

cooked

1 1.0

Food that is heated until ready to eat

How Cooked

overdone

1 2.9

well-done

12 1.6

cooked

1 1.0

half-baked

4.1

underdone

2 3.8

raw

353 1.0

Surface Forms

half-baked positive

Morphology

half-baked = half + baked (transparent) = half + bake + ed

The literal sense is directly compositional: something is only partly baked.

Etymology

Half-baked comes from half ('partly') and bake ('cook in an oven'). It originally meant food that was 'partly cooked', like bread still doughy in the middle, which is why we call undercooked food half-baked.