half-baked

[haf-beykt, hahf-] /ˈhæfˈbeɪkt, ˈhɑf-/

adjective

insufficiently cooked.

not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared:

a half-baked proposal for tax reform.

lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic.

Origin

1615-25

Examples from the web for half-baked

The tedious naysayers with their half-baked arguments are only seeking attention here that they can't get in their daily lives.
The last thing any discipline needs is more rushed, half-baked research.
Children, and half-baked adults, were in danger of becoming ruminants.
In that case half-baked, not-quite-heme molecules pile up.
When the real news agencies go away, the web will have to feed on tweets and half-baked blog content.
Not sure if anything ever came from the meeting they had, and in the article it still seems rather half-baked.
Although the science was questionable and the politics were the usual half-baked compromises.
The paths to discoveries are often full of setbacks and half-baked methodologies.
After a week of half-baked album sales, the music industry is singing the summertime blues.
He simply tries to beat it in his own half-baked way.

British Dictionary definitions for half-baked

adjective

insufficiently baked

(informal) foolish; stupid

(informal) poorly planned or conceived

Word Origin and History for half-baked

adj.

1620s as "underdone;" 1855 in sense of "silly;" see half + bake (v.).

Slang definitions & phrases for half-baked

adjective

Foolish; ill-conceived; not completely thought out; half-assed (1621+)