half-baked
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6.5
- adjective
- /ˌhæfˈbeɪkt/
- Informal
:
mal concebido
- We need a more thorough strategy instead of these half-baked ideas.
- a half-baked idea
- a half-baked plan
- a half-baked notion
And we regularly send them out very, very half baked ideas.
- And we regularly send them out very, very half baked ideas.
- And fixing ideas that are only half baked.
- So my my take is half baked at this point.
- It always felt kind of bolted on, kind of half baked.
- You show me someone who's a loser and I will show you someone who's got a million ideas and they're all half baked, half attempted.
- They're using all these kind of half baked rule of thumb principles that you can't reduce to clear physics.
- He's at least educated enough to have half baked ideas, and that's more than some kings of this time and later will be.
- He had a he had a nerd on his wall saying no half baked ideas.
Examples
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A digital strategy is not optional, and a half-baked digital strategy is worse than none at all.
Blog text (31) -
The government must now withdraw this half baked deal which is clear does not have the backing of the Cabinet, this Parliament or the country as a whole.
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And we regularly send them out very, very half baked ideas.
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Yeah, that sounds like a real half baked plan, Jay.
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Ben, this whole idea sounds pretty half-baked.
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I also share a lot of story development and half-baked ideas that probably aren't ready for the wide world.
Blog text (29) -
And I think when you tell kids to work hard and there's no why behind it, it seems half baked, you're right.
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In many circles, Siri represents something half-baked that Apple never fully developed.
Blog text (7) -
A bright but rather half-baked master's thesis, which ended on a dismissive note.
Fiction book (1998) -
It's a lot to pursue some half-baked notion of radio stardom.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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6.1
Poorly planned and likely to fail
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6.8
Not carefully planned or thought about before doing it
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7.9
Foolish and not likely to succeed
Not fully planned or thought through and missing important details
Antonyms
How Developed
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Morphology
Etymology
Half-baked keeps the image of half ('partly') and bake ('cook in an oven'): think of a cake not finished in the oven and so not ready. A half-baked idea is therefore 'not fully developed' or not sensible.