HALF-BAKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half-baked mean? 

• HALF-BAKED (adjective)
  The adjective HALF-BAKED has 2 senses:

1. foolish; totally unsound

2. insufficiently cooked

  Familiarity information: HALF-BAKED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF-BAKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Foolish; totally unsound

Synonyms:

crazy; half-baked; screwball; softheaded

Context example:

a screwball proposal without a prayer of working

Similar:

impractical (not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Insufficiently cooked

Synonyms:

half-baked; underdone

Similar:

raw (not treated with heat to prepare it for eating)

 Context examples 

The socialist philosophy that riots half-baked in your veins has passed me by.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

What did you have in you? —some childish notions, a few half-baked sentiments, a lot of undigested beauty, a great black mass of ignorance, a heart filled to bursting with love, and an ambition as big as your love and as futile as your ignorance.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)