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half baked
adjective as in inefficient
adjective as in moronic
adjective as in premature
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adjective as in shallow
adjective as in starry-eyed
adjective as in stupid
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Strong matches
adjective as in superficial
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Weak matches
- apparent
- casual
- cosmetic
- depthless
- desultory
- empty
- evident
- exterior
- external
- flash
- flimsy
- general
- glib
- half-baked
- hasty
- hurried
- ignorant
- inattentive
- lightweight
- nodding
- on the surface
- ostensible
- outward
- partial
- passing
- peripheral
- quick-fix
- seeming
- shallow
- shoal
- skin-deep
- slapdash
- smattery
- summary
- surface
- tip of the iceberg
- uncritical
- warped
adjective as in unacceptable
adjective as in undeveloped
adjective as in unfinished
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Weak matches
- amateurish
- crude
- cut short
- dabbling
- defective
- deficient
- dilettante
- faulty
- formless
- found wanting
- fragmentary
- half-baked
- half-done
- immature
- imperfect
- in the making
- in the rough
- lacking
- natural
- not done
- plain
- raw
- rough
- roughhewn
- shapeless
- sketchy
- tentative
- unaccomplished
- unassembled
- uncompleted
- unconcluded
- under construction
- undone
- unexecuted
- unfashioned
- unperfected
- unpolished
- unrefined
- wanting
adjective as in unrealistic
adjective as in vacuous
adjective as in wanting
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in witless
adjective as in imbecilic
Weak matches
- absurd
- asinine
- brainless
- cockamamie
- crazy
- daffy
- daft
- dippy
- doltish
- dotty
- fantastic
- fatuous
- feebleminded
- half-baked
- half-witted
- harebrained
- idiotic
- ill-advised
- ill-considered
- imprudent
- incautious
- indiscreet
- injudicious
- insane
- irrational
- jerky
- kooky
- loony
- ludicrous
- lunatic
- mad
- moronic
- nonsensical
- nutty
- preposterous
- ridiculous
- senseless
- short-sighted
- silly
- simple
- softheaded
- stupid
- tomfool
- unearthly
- unintelligent
- unreasonable
- unwise
- wacky
- weak
- witless
- zany
adjective as in loopy
Weak matches
- asinine
- brainless
- cockamamy
- daffy
- daft
- dippy
- doltish
- dotty
- fantastic
- fatuous
- feebleminded
- half-baked
- half-witted
- harebrained
- idiotic
- ill-advised
- ill-considered
- imbecilic
- imprudent
- incautious
- indiscreet
- injudicious
- irrational
- jerky
- loony
- lunatic
- mad
- moronic
- nonsensical
- preposterous
- senseless
- short-sighted
- simple
- softheaded
- stupid
- tomfool
- unearthly
- unintelligent
- unreasonable
- unwise
- weak
adjective as in one-dimensional
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- apparent
- casual
- cosmetic
- cursory
- depthless
- desultory
- empty
- evident
- exterior
- external
- flash
- flimsy
- frivolous
- general
- glib
- half-baked
- hasty
- hurried
- ignorant
- inattentive
- lightweight
- nodding
- on the surface
- ostensible
- outward
- partial
- passing
- perfunctory
- quick-fix
- seeming
- shoal
- silly
- skin-deep
- slapdash
- slight
- smattery
- summary
- surface
- tip of the iceberg
- trivial
- uncritical
adjective as in softheaded
Weak matches
- absurd
- asinine
- brainless
- cockamamy
- crazy
- daffy
- daft
- dippy
- doltish
- dotty
- fantastic
- fatuous
- feebleminded
- half-baked
- half-witted
- harebrained
- idiotic
- ill-advised
- ill-considered
- imbecilic
- imprudent
- incautious
- indiscreet
- injudicious
- insane
- irrational
- jerky
- kooky
- loony
- ludicrous
- lunatic
- mad
- moronic
- nonsensical
- nutty
- preposterous
- ridiculous
- senseless
- short-sighted
- silly
- simple
- stupid
- tomfool
- unearthly
- unintelligent
- unreasonable
- unwise
- wacky
- weak
- witless
- zany
adjective as in thick-witted
Weak matches
- blockheaded
- brainless
- dazed
- deficient
- dense
- dim
- doltish
- dopey
- dull
- dumb
- dummy
- foolish
- futile
- gullible
- half-baked
- half-witted
- hebetudinous
- idiotic
- ill-advised
- imbecilic
- inane
- indiscreet
- insensate
- irrelevant
- laughable
- loser
- ludicrous
- meaningless
- mindless
- moronic
- naive
- nonsensical
- obtuse
- out to lunch
- pointless
- puerile
- rash
- senseless
- shortsighted
- simple
- simpleminded
- slow
- sluggish
- stolid
- stupefied
- thick
- thick-headed
- thickheaded
- trivial
- unintelligent
- unthinking
- witless
adjective as in tomfool
Weak matches
- asinine
- brainless
- cockamamy
- daffy
- daft
- dippy
- doltish
- dotty
- fantastic
- fatuous
- feebleminded
- half-baked
- half-witted
- harebrained
- idiotic
- ill-advised
- ill-considered
- imbecilic
- imprudent
- incautious
- indiscreet
- injudicious
- insane
- kooky
- ludicrous
- mad
- moronic
- nonsensical
- nutty
- preposterous
- ridiculous
- senseless
- short-sighted
- softheaded
- unearthly
- unintelligent
- unreasonable
- unwise
- wacky
- weak
- witless
adjective as in unworkmanlike
adjective as in crazy
Strongest matches
adjective as in cursory
adjective as in daft
adjective as in dilettante
Strong matches
adjective as in dull
adjective as in foolish
Strongest matches
adjective as in half-baked
adjective as in harebrained
adjective as in ill-advised
adjective as in stupid; not thought through
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"The ideas were good, but they were half-baked," one senior staffer explained.
Then there were those songs that were either too half-baked or half-hearted to even fool us into turning them into smash hits.
“When you see Half Baked 2, make no mistake about it, I have completely run out of money,” he joked.
But the anti-Stalinism competes with half-baked fantasies about a better tomorrow.
More than any other American institution, baseball most wholeheartedly welcomes half-baked history and curdled lore.
Or are all you Mentorians so gutless that you believe any half-baked folk tale the Lhari pass off on you?
It is true that she regarded her as a half-baked natural, but she would never let anyone but herself say so.
Not in all his career had he ever been known to discuss in print his theories, or deductions, or half-baked conclusion.
This is characteristic of an excess in education; of the half baked mind overtrained.
He believed in sudden conversion, a belief which may be right, but which is peculiarly attractive to a half-baked mind.
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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to half-baked, such as: idiotic, ill-conceived, witless, backward, batty, and bird-brained.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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