half-finished

English

Etymology

From half- + finished.

Adjective

half-finished (not comparable)

  1. Only partially completed, being approximately at the halfway stage.
    • 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.

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