half-finished en · ADJ
Etymology
From half- + finished.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Only partially completed, being more or less at the halfway stage.
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.
1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, in Railway Magazine, page 800:
Coordinates
unfinished · finished · done
Synonyms
half-done · semicompleted · semicomplete
Translations (16)
az yarımçılıq (only partially completed) · sv halvfabrikat (only partially completed) · de halbfertig (only partially completed) · nb halvferdig (only partially completed) · cmn 半截的 (only partially completed) · az yarımçıq (only partially completed) · cmn 半成的 (only partially completed) · fa ناتمام (only partially completed) · kix yôlīe (only partially completed) · fi puolivalmis (only partially completed) · sv halvfärdig (only partially completed) · grc ἡμιτελής (only partially completed) · fa نیمکاره (only partially completed) · nn halvferdig (only partially completed) · la sēmifactus (only partially completed) · mk полуготов (only partially completed)