"half-baked" meaning in All languages combined

See half-baked on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˌhæfˈbeɪkt/ [Canada, General-American], /ˌhɑːfˈbeɪkt/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-au-half-baked.ogg Forms: more half-baked [comparative], most half-baked [superlative]
Etymology: From half- + baked. Etymology templates: {{pre|en|half|baked}} half- + baked Head templates: {{en-adj|nolinkhead=1}} half-baked (comparative more half-baked, superlative most half-baked)
  1. (figurative, informal, frequently derisive) Incomplete; (of an idea or scheme) not fully planned or carefully considered, ill-conceived, unsound or badly thought-out; (of a person) foolish or having no common sense. Tags: figuratively, informal Synonyms: half-assed, half-cocked Translations (incomplete): halfbakken (Dutch), halfgaar (Dutch), foireux (French), fumeux (French), unausgegoren (German), несостоя́тельный (nesostojátelʹnyj) [masculine] (Russian), доморо́щенный (domoróščennyj) [masculine] (Russian), faltarle un hervor (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-half-baked-en-adj-i6lC8fn7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with half-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Ingrian translations, Terms with Old English translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with half-: 71 29 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 93 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 92 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Ingrian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Old English translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of 'incomplete': 98 2
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Partially cooked by heating in an oven. Translations (partially cooked): halfbakken (Dutch), halfgaar (Dutch), puolikypsä (Finnish), μισοψημένος (misopsiménos) [masculine] (Greek), toorekas (Ingrian), samsoden (Old English), healfsoden (Old English)
    Sense id: en-half-baked-en-adj-MTTDlN4n Categories (other): &lit not valid pagename Disambiguation of 'partially cooked': 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: half baked, halfbaked Related terms: half-measure, need more time in the oven

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "half",
        "3": "baked"
      },
      "expansion": "half- + baked",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From half- + baked.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more half-baked",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most half-baked",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "nolinkhead": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "half-baked (comparative more half-baked, superlative most half-baked)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "half-measure"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "need more time in the oven"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with half-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "95 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ingrian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Old English translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The guy had some half-baked idea for getting rich in the stock market.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 592:",
          "text": "\"You're cheap. Cheap education, cheap ideas, a half-baked bloody nobody.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
          "text": "She came skipping to me just now, clapping her little hands and bleating about how very, very happy she was, dear Mrs Travers. The silly young geezer. I nearly conked her one with my trowel. I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Todd G. Buchholz, From Here to Economy, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Though Jevons's theory was more than half-baked, it needed more time in the oven, since he forgot to calculate that poor harvests in Asia would hit England only after a time lag.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 April 16, Paula Cocozza, “Resignation by cake: the sweetest way to say goodbye”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "A Cambridgeshire man recently gave notice with a message piped on top of a passion cake. A half-baked idea, or a generous parting gift for the office?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Incomplete; (of an idea or scheme) not fully planned or carefully considered, ill-conceived, unsound or badly thought-out; (of a person) foolish or having no common sense."
      ],
      "id": "en-half-baked-en-adj-i6lC8fn7",
      "links": [
        [
          "Incomplete",
          "incomplete"
        ],
        [
          "idea",
          "idea"
        ],
        [
          "scheme",
          "scheme"
        ],
        [
          "plan",
          "plan"
        ],
        [
          "consider",
          "consider"
        ],
        [
          "ill-conceived",
          "ill-conceived"
        ],
        [
          "unsound",
          "unsound"
        ],
        [
          "thought-out",
          "thought-out"
        ],
        [
          "foolish",
          "foolish"
        ],
        [
          "common sense",
          "common sense"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "frequently derisive",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, informal, frequently derisive) Incomplete; (of an idea or scheme) not fully planned or carefully considered, ill-conceived, unsound or badly thought-out; (of a person) foolish or having no common sense."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "half-assed"
        },
        {
          "word": "half-cocked"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "informal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "incomplete",
          "word": "halfbakken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "incomplete",
          "word": "halfgaar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "incomplete",
          "word": "foireux"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "incomplete",
          "word": "fumeux"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "incomplete",
          "word": "unausgegoren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nesostojátelʹnyj",
          "sense": "incomplete",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "несостоя́тельный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "domoróščennyj",
          "sense": "incomplete",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "доморо́щенный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "incomplete",
          "word": "faltarle un hervor"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "&lit not valid pagename",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When the casserole is half-baked, take it out and sprinkle the grated cheese on top.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Partially cooked by heating in an oven."
      ],
      "id": "en-half-baked-en-adj-MTTDlN4n",
      "links": [
        [
          "cook",
          "cook"
        ],
        [
          "heat",
          "heat"
        ],
        [
          "oven",
          "oven"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "partially cooked",
          "word": "halfbakken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "partially cooked",
          "word": "halfgaar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "partially cooked",
          "word": "puolikypsä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "misopsiménos",
          "sense": "partially cooked",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "μισοψημένος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "partially cooked",
          "word": "toorekas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "partially cooked",
          "word": "samsoden"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "partially cooked",
          "word": "healfsoden"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌhæfˈbeɪkt/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌhɑːfˈbeɪkt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-half-baked.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4d/En-au-half-baked.ogg/En-au-half-baked.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/En-au-half-baked.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "half baked"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "halfbaked"
    }
  ],
  "word": "half-baked"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms prefixed with half-",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Ingrian translations",
    "Terms with Old English translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "half",
        "3": "baked"
      },
      "expansion": "half- + baked",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From half- + baked.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more half-baked",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most half-baked",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "nolinkhead": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "half-baked (comparative more half-baked, superlative most half-baked)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "half-measure"
    },
    {
      "word": "need more time in the oven"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The guy had some half-baked idea for getting rich in the stock market.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 592:",
          "text": "\"You're cheap. Cheap education, cheap ideas, a half-baked bloody nobody.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
          "text": "She came skipping to me just now, clapping her little hands and bleating about how very, very happy she was, dear Mrs Travers. The silly young geezer. I nearly conked her one with my trowel. I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Todd G. Buchholz, From Here to Economy, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Though Jevons's theory was more than half-baked, it needed more time in the oven, since he forgot to calculate that poor harvests in Asia would hit England only after a time lag.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 April 16, Paula Cocozza, “Resignation by cake: the sweetest way to say goodbye”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "A Cambridgeshire man recently gave notice with a message piped on top of a passion cake. A half-baked idea, or a generous parting gift for the office?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Incomplete; (of an idea or scheme) not fully planned or carefully considered, ill-conceived, unsound or badly thought-out; (of a person) foolish or having no common sense."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Incomplete",
          "incomplete"
        ],
        [
          "idea",
          "idea"
        ],
        [
          "scheme",
          "scheme"
        ],
        [
          "plan",
          "plan"
        ],
        [
          "consider",
          "consider"
        ],
        [
          "ill-conceived",
          "ill-conceived"
        ],
        [
          "unsound",
          "unsound"
        ],
        [
          "thought-out",
          "thought-out"
        ],
        [
          "foolish",
          "foolish"
        ],
        [
          "common sense",
          "common sense"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "frequently derisive",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, informal, frequently derisive) Incomplete; (of an idea or scheme) not fully planned or carefully considered, ill-conceived, unsound or badly thought-out; (of a person) foolish or having no common sense."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "half-assed"
        },
        {
          "word": "half-cocked"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "&lit not valid pagename",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When the casserole is half-baked, take it out and sprinkle the grated cheese on top.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Partially cooked by heating in an oven."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cook",
          "cook"
        ],
        [
          "heat",
          "heat"
        ],
        [
          "oven",
          "oven"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌhæfˈbeɪkt/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌhɑːfˈbeɪkt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-half-baked.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4d/En-au-half-baked.ogg/En-au-half-baked.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/En-au-half-baked.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "half baked"
    },
    {
      "word": "halfbaked"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "incomplete",
      "word": "halfbakken"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "incomplete",
      "word": "halfgaar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "incomplete",
      "word": "foireux"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "incomplete",
      "word": "fumeux"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "incomplete",
      "word": "unausgegoren"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nesostojátelʹnyj",
      "sense": "incomplete",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "несостоя́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "domoróščennyj",
      "sense": "incomplete",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "доморо́щенный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "incomplete",
      "word": "faltarle un hervor"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "partially cooked",
      "word": "halfbakken"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "partially cooked",
      "word": "halfgaar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "partially cooked",
      "word": "puolikypsä"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "misopsiménos",
      "sense": "partially cooked",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "μισοψημένος"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "partially cooked",
      "word": "toorekas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "partially cooked",
      "word": "samsoden"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "partially cooked",
      "word": "healfsoden"
    }
  ],
  "word": "half-baked"
}

Download raw JSONL data for half-baked meaning in All languages combined (5.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.