Meanings
adjectivehalf-read (not comparable)
- not comparablePartly read.
I put down my half-read book and went outside.
- not comparableobsoleteInadequately or superficially educated by reading.
The clown unread, and half-read gentleman
1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC
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