half-baked

Questions about half-baked

What does half-baked mean?

half-baked means "foolish; totally unsound". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in half-baked?

half-baked has 2 syllables: half--baked. The stress falls on "half-". In IPA it is /ˈhæfˌbeɪkt/.

What is another word for half-baked?

Close synonyms include crazy, screwball, softheaded, underdone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is half-baked a common word?

half-baked is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with half-baked?

1 word rhymes with half-baked. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.