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.

Related terms

• half-built
• unfinished

Translations

only partially completed

• Azerbaijani: yarımçıq (az), yarımçılıq
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 半成的 (bànchéng de), 半截的 (bànjié de)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: puolivalmis
• German: halbfertig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἡμιτελής (hēmitelḗs)

• Khiamniungan Naga: yôlīe
• Latin: sēmifactus
• Macedonian: полуготов (polugotov)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: halvferdig

  Nynorsk: halvferdig

• Persian: نیم‌کاره (nim-kâre), ناتمام (fa) (nâ-tamâm)
• Swedish: halvfärdig (sv), halvfabrikat (sv) n

References

• “half-finished”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.