halfway
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2.1
- adjective
- /ˈhæfˌweɪ/
- A thriving business sector encourages political stability and allows the Afghans to experience a halfway normal life.
- a halfway house
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Examples
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Nixon and I once did a halfway decent duet of "Moonglow."
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We need data, data, data, observations, missions, year after year before we can hope to make a halfway decent computer model.
Fiction book (2001) -
But where the book really lost me was the halfway point in the story.
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Here is your halfway celebration.
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With a halfway decent coach, they'd probably be ahead by now.
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I want to give him a chance at a halfway normal life.
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With a halfway decent coach, they'd probably be ahead by now.
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Normal is the halfway point between what you want and what you can get.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Partly done and not complete
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1.0
To some extent but not completely
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3.4
Not complete and only in some parts
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2.4
To some degree but not completely
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3.7
At a point in the middle, not at the start or end
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3.4
Only partly finished and not ready to use
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6.5
Done only partly and without full effort
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3.4
Partly done and not finished
Partly finished and not completely done
Antonyms
Compounds
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4.6
A place where people live while they recover from addiction or return from prison and prepare to live alone
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Halfway as an adjective can be seen as half + way, with half meaning 'half' and way meaning 'path', so it is like being only part of the way there. So a halfway solution is only partly done or 'not complete'.