Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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half-baked

UK /ˌhɑːfˈbeɪkt/ · US /ˌhæfˈbeɪkt/ adjective, noun

Forms half-bakeds halfbaked half baked

  1. adjective Of a person or thing: incompletely developed or formed; not fully prepared or trained.
  2. adjective Of an idea or scheme; not carefully considered or fully planned; ill-conceived, unsound. “The guy had some half-baked idea for getting rich in the stock market.”
  3. adjective Of a person: having no common sense or intelligence; foolish.
  4. adjective Of a person: mildly under the influence of alcohol, a drug, etc. “If you need to talk to John tonight, try to catch him early in the evening, while he’s still only half-baked.”
  5. adjective Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: partially cooked by heating in an oven, either as an accidental outcome or as a work in process. “The casserole was half-baked, but I choked it down anyway to be polite.”
  6. noun (informal or UK, dialectal) A foolish or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.

Synonyms

half-assed half-cocked dough-baked asinine balmy barmy bedaft loony daft derpy dim-headed dim-witted dopey dull-headed dull-witted dumb duncical fatuous fuzzy-headed fuzzy-minded crazy screwball softheaded underdone

Antonyms

astute clairvoyant deep frood grounded judicious oracular perspicacious politic profound prudent quick-witted

Etymology

The adjective is derived from half- (prefix meaning ‘incomplete, partial’) or half (adverb) + baked (“cooked by baking; (slang) drunk”, adjective).
The noun is derived from adjective sense 1.2 (“of a person: having no common sense or intelligence”).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “half-baked”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details