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HALF-BAKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Insufficiently cooked
Synonyms:
half-baked; underdone
Classified under:
Similar:
raw (not treated with heat to prepare it for eating)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Foolish; totally unsound
Example:
a screwball proposal without a prayer of working
Synonyms:
crazy; half-baked; screwball; softheaded
Classified under:
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)
