half-finished
English
Etymology
Adjective
half-finished (not comparable)
- Only partially completed, being more or less at the halfway stage.
- Synonyms: half-done, semicompleted, semicomplete
- Hyponym: half-built
- Coordinate terms: unfinished; finished, done
- 1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, in Railway Magazine, page 800:
- As we contemplate the half-finished arterial roads and electrification plans of our own age, and the town-planning schemes that gather dust in the public libraries, we can admire the drive and action of the railway pioneers.
Translations
only partially completed
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References
- “half-finished”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.