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Definitions for HALF-BAKED
half-baked

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheadedadjective

    foolish; totally unsound

    "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"

  2. half-baked, underdoneadjective

    insufficiently cooked

GCIDE

  1. half-bakedadjective

    Insufficiently or poorly planned or thought out; impractical or unrealistic; as, a half-baked proposal; half-baked ideas; -- of plans, theories, proposals, etc.

  2. half-bakedadjective

    Insufficiently cooked; -- of food.

Wiktionary

  1. half-bakedadjective

    Incomplete; not fully planned or carefully considered, ill-conceived, unsound or badly thought-out; foolish or having no common sense.

    The guy had some half-baked idea for getting rich in the stock market.

ChatGPT

  1. half-baked

    Half-baked refers to something that is not fully thought out, developed or completed. It often implies that the outcome or idea is poorly executed due to lack of proper planning, understanding or maturity. This term can be applied to ideas, plans, projects, theories, or any outcome of a thought process.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of HALF-BAKED in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of HALF-BAKED in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of HALF-BAKED in a Sentence

  1. Ian Shoales:

    Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

  2. Author Unknown:

    Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

  3. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

    Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

  4. Daniel Berhane:

    I do not think he will or should win. If that happens, it will be an endorsement of a person that does not like institutions or teamwork but just churns out half-baked ideas aimed at appeasing Westerners, a win will exacerbate his narcissism and would be detrimental to the prospects of institutionalized reform and stability of the country.

  5. Katie Hill:

    We have to have the best possible case. We shouldn't go into it half-baked in any way, shape or form. So I want the lawsuits to progress. I want us to get the information back that we're expecting, i feel confident in saying,' Listen, We're probably going to get there.' But this is my stance in terms of at what point we call for it.


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