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Meaning of "half-formed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HALF-FORMED

half-formed play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALF-FORMED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Half-Formed is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HALF-FORMED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of half-formed in the English dictionary

The definition of half-formed in the dictionary is not or not having been fully formed.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALF-FORMED

half-drunk
half-eaten
half-educated
half-empty
half-English
half-fare
half-fill
half-filled
half-finished
half-forgotten
half-forward
half-frame
half-frozen
half-full
half-grown
half-hardy
half-hearted
half-heartedly
half-heartedness
half-hitch

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALF-FORMED

biformed
confirmed
deformed
ill-formed
ill-informed
informed
malformed
normed
Reformed
to be reliably informed
twiformed
undeformed
unformed
uniformed
uninformed
unperformed
unreformed
untransformed
unwormed
well-formed
well-informed

Synonyms and antonyms of half-formed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «half-formed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALF-FORMED

Find out the translation of half-formed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of half-formed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «half-formed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

半形成
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

medio - formada
570 millions of speakers

English

half-formed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधे का गठन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شكلت نصف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

полусформировавшееся
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

formou - metade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্ধ গঠিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

demi - formé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Separuh terbentuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Halb gebildet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハーフ形成された
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반 형성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Setengah dibentuk
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nửa hình thành
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாதி உருவாக்கமுற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्धवट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yarım,
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mezzo - formato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pół uformowane
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

полусформіровавшееся
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

- jumătate format
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μισο -σχηματισμένο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

half- gevorm
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

halv - bildade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halv - formet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of half-formed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-FORMED»

The term «half-formed» is regularly used and occupies the 83.096 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-FORMED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about half-formed

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF-FORMED»

Discover the use of half-formed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to half-formed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
' Kirsty Gunn, Herald Scotland 'Remarkable, harshly satisfying first novel.'London Review of Books 'This is the work of a writer with the courage to reinvent the sentence as she pleases, and the virtuosity required to pull it off.
Eimear McBride, 2013
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A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Author. biography. Eimear McBride was born in 1976 in Liverpoolto NorthernIrish parents. Aged two, she and her family returned to Ireland and her childhood was spent mostly in Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo, and later in Castlebar, Co Mayo.
Eimear McBride, 2014
3
Highways in Hiding
I left homestead with a half-formed idea that I was going to visit Bruce, Wisconsin, long enough to say goodbye to Catherine and to release her from any matrimonial involvement she may have felt binding. I did not relish this idea, but I felt that ...
George O. Smith, 2007
4
Mediating American Autobiography: Photography in Emerson, ...
As early as his review of his own work in 1855, where he observes, “We are afforded glimpses of half-formed pictures to tease and tantalize with their indistinctness . . . mocking us for a moment, but vanishing before we can reach them.
Sean Ross Meehan, 2008
5
Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis
These two find each other drawn together through a joint recognition like two people falling in love with each other. When this happens there is a wedding contract that affirms and establishes what until then had been only half-formed. Wilfred ...
Neville Symington, 2007
6
The Stark Munro Letters
A half-formed brain makes a half-formed God, and who shall say that our brains are even half-formed yet? The truly inspired priest is the man or woman with the big brain. It is not the shaven patch on the outside, but it is the sixty ounces within  ...
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir, 2008
7
Invisible Politics: Black Political Behavior
In fact, it's physical reality sometimes makes discussion of its symbolic value difficult, this has been it's Achilles heel; while it may or may not exist as a "state of mind," it certainly does exist as a "state of being," and so remains a half-formed ...
Hanes Walton, 1985
8
The Influence of Binaries on Stellar Population Studies
Furthermore, since exchange interactions tend to take place in the dense central regions of the cluster it is not surprising to find a paucity of wide circular binaries. Of the single BSs formed in the model, about half formed by coalescence of a ...
D. Vanbeveren, 2001
9
Heaven
This spoonerism combines the pleasure of what it is to have a good meal (a half- warmed fish inside us) and what it is to be full of hope and longing (the half- formed wishes of the human heart). Our lives are punctuated by half- formed wishes, ...
Roger Ferlo, 2007
10
Dictionary of the Synonymous Words and Technical Terms in ...
... half diameter, semidiameter, called also the radius ; half transparent, semidia- ph/nous; half formed, semi formed ; half a globe, semiglobular ; formed like a half moon, semilunar; half males, i. e. eunuchs, semimares; belonging somewhat to ...
James Leslie (of Edinburgh.), 1806

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF-FORMED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term half-formed is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Two Chelsea Galleries Go Wall Out for Summer - Hyperallergic
At the core of the piece, which includes Johnny Rotten fellating a satanic unicorn and a father-son wrestler duo sparring, is a half-formed idea ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
2
Tame Impala's Currents, Reviewed - Pretty Much Amazing
Besides sounding half-formed, it also interrupts what could have been a superior coda in “Reality In Motion” and “New Person, Same Old ... «Pretty Much Amazing, Jul 15»
3
Debut novel leads to writer claiming prize
The 2014 winner was Eimear McBride, author of the much-garlanded and critically lauded A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. Past winners include ... «Daily Echo, Jul 15»
4
Author Interview: Jennifer Caloyeras talks 'Strays'
Some books I've enjoyed recently are: A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride, The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty by Amanda ... «The Young Folks, Jul 15»
5
A coffee a day to keep disease at bay
You spit out a half-formed expletive as you bury your head into the pillow, desperately pleading with an invisible force for an extra 10 minutes of ... «The Press West Coast, Jul 15»
6
Wavves x Cloud Nothings
OK, it sounds cheap, the songs are half-formed and often take ridiculous left turns or just peter out. Also, some of the playing is moronic (the ... «Soundblab, Jul 15»
7
Group the Internet, once out there, now poised for success
The music was half-formed but laced with intriguing ideas inspired by the brainy L.A. group Sa-Ra (whose Om'Mas Keith went on to work with ... «San Angelo Standard Times, Jul 15»
8
What's JBay Going To Look Like This Week?
Half-formed lows and wobbly unseasonal oceanic highs should lead to small surf, odd winds, and just one possibly solid day of swell on the ... «Surfing Life, Jul 15»
9
Why Teenage Daughters and Moms Fight
“They share feelings and articulate thoughts even when they are half-formed. Both mothers and daughters often air out loud the things that ... «Yahoo Parenting, Jul 15»
10
Sidebottom rubber-stamps Yorkshire title credentials
... another Sidebottom special that curled around his half-formed defences to flatten his off stump, as Warwickshire contrived to lose their next ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
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