halfway
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2.1
- adjective
- /ˈhæfˌweɪ/
:
parcial
- A thriving business sector encourages political stability and allows the Afghans to experience a halfway normal life.
- a halfway house
So any questions about our halfway done proof?
- So any questions about our halfway done proof?
- So it's like a halfway compromise.
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
375
1.0
To some extent but not completely
203
3.4
Not complete and only in some parts
198
2.4
To some degree but not completely
102
1.0
Partly done and not complete
12
3.7
At a point in the middle, not at the start or end
11
6.5
Done only partly and without full effort
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3.4
Only partly finished and not ready to use
2
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
How Complete
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'.