From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhalf-bakedˌhalf-ˈbaked adjective informal PLANa half-baked idea, suggestion, plan etc has not been properly planned He’s always coming out with these half-baked ideas which will never work.
Examples from the Corpus
half-baked• Like other Thatcherite creations, the Enterprise Allowance Scheme is chock-a-block with buzzwords whose connection with reality is, at best, half-baked.• Youth culture has impregnated generation upon generation with half-baked alternatives.• Both Hayman's suggestions were too loose and half-baked for a man of his devious cunning to consider seriously for a moment.• Here is the social democrat refusing to condemn the absurdities he chronicles so well; or simply producing half-baked observations.• What we've got here is a half-baked proposal that still needs a great deal of work.• The question is whether, having raised the issue, green consumerism then legitimises a half-baked response.• For certain technologies, notably strategic defence against nuclear weapons, researching makes more sense than deploying a half-baked system.• There are more cranes than half-baked themes done to excess.• Even if his history is half-baked, there is nothing amateurish about Mr Severin's voyage. 