half empty
adj1
Synonym of half full.
- "[…] But we shouldn't be charging a share of the main line costs to the half-empty trains on the Marlow branch. If the Marlow branch trains were cut because they don't pay, you'd still have to face all the costs of the main line, just without the extra passengers delivered by the Marlow branch."2023 November 1, Paul Clifton, “One account for the UK railway”, in RAIL, number 995, page 43:
- Related terms
- glass-half-empty, the glass half-empty