half-baked

Definition

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.

Etymology

From half- + baked.

Example Sentences

• "The guy had some half-baked idea for getting rich in the stock market."
• ""You're cheap. Cheap education, cheap ideas, a half-baked bloody nobody.""
• "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."