half-formed

ADJECTIVE

green

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fresh grassy leafy lush raw tender verdant

STRONG

budding burgeoning developing flourishing foliate growing immature infant juvenile maturing pullulating recent sprouting supple unripe

WEAK

bosky callow pliable puerile undecayed undried unfledged ungrown verduous youthful

Antonyms

STRONGEST

healthy

STRONG

adult dying mature old shrinking withering

WEAK

withered

Example Sentences

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The concepts feel half-formed at best, disconnected from Joan/Jo’s story.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

We see some guileless part of ourselves within him — a half-formed reflection in his goldfish Dorothy’s fishbowl.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2024

He already had a half-formed idea about a woman who rented out her home to film crews.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2023

These half-formed thoughts clutter slides, which attempt to portray a mind-numbing amount of information coherently.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2023

It arrived not as some half-formed impulse, he said, but rich in detail.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson