done
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dŭn
ipa: /dʌn/
ipa: /dʊn/
ipa: /dʊn/
ipa: /duːn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: dun
homophone: Donn
homophone: Donne
homophone: Dunn
homophone: Dunne
Forms: form: more done
form: most done
form: dyun
Etymology: From Middle English don, idon, ydon, ȝedon, gedon, from Old English dōn, ġedōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dān, from Proto-Germanic *dēnaz (past participle of *dōną (“to do”)). Equivalent to do + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Scots dune, deen, dene, dane (“done”), Saterland Frisian däin (“done”), West Frisian dien (“done”), Dutch gedaan (“done”), German Low German daan (“done”), German getan (“done”). More at do.
Senses: examples: text: He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done."
text: They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.
glosses: Having completed or finished an activity.
examples: text: I'll text you when the movie's done.
glosses: Completed or finished.
raw_tags: of an activity or task
examples: text: As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
glosses: Ready, fully cooked.
raw_tags: of food
examples: text: When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
glosses: Being exhausted or fully spent.
examples: text: He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
glosses: Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
examples: text: I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done!
text: What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!
glosses: Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
examples: text: I'm done my homework.
glosses: Finished with (something).
examples: text: I can say what I like now because I am mental and I can't get done for it.
ref: 2012 May 1, Liam Houlihan, Return To The Badlands: Twelve Enthralling True Cases Of Crooks, Cults And Crackpots, Melbourne Univ. Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Normally, when you pass a law in New Zealand, you can't be done for it if you broke the law in the past.
ref: 2021, Brooke van Velden, comments in the New Zealand Parliament regarding the COVID-19 Response (Management Measures) Legislation Bill
glosses: Punished.
Synonyms: sense: finished an activity
word: completed
sense: finished an activity
word: concluded
sense: finished an activity
word: finished
sense: finished an activity
word: in the books
Derived terms: after all is said and done
and be done with it
and have done with it
a woman's work is never done
bedone
be done for
be done with
be done with it
consider it done
done and dusted
done brown
done deal
done dotta
done for
done gone
done like a dinner
doneness
doner
donesies
done thing
done up
done up like a dog's dinner
done up like a kipper
easier said than done
fordone
get done for
get 'er done
get the job done
get work done
half-done
hard done by
have done
have done with
have work done
no harm done
no sooner said than done
not done
one-and-done
over and done
over and done with
overdone
predone
said and done
that's done it
the damage is done
underdone
undone
well begun is half done
well done
well-done
what has someone done
what's done is done
when all is said and done