gone
Part of speech: adj
prep
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
Inflected forms:
form: further gone
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farther gone
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: goner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: furthest gone
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthest gone
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gonest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Away, having left.
pos: adj
examples: Are they gone already?
gloss: No longer existing, having passed.
pos: adj
examples: The days of my youth are gone.
All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.
All the love in the world can't be gone / All the need to be loved can't be wrong / All the records are playing and my heart keeps saying / "Boogie Wonderland, Wonderland"
gloss: Used up.
pos: adj
examples: I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
gloss: Broken, failed.
pos: adj
examples: The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.
gloss: Dead.
pos: adj
examples: Dust, that a breath could blow aside, yet that was once, like ourselves, animate with hope, passion, and sorrow, is below; around are the vain memorials of human grief and human pride; yet all alike dedicated to the gone.
gloss: Doomed, done for.
pos: adj
examples: Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
gloss: Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.
[S]he put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone[…].
gloss: Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you.
But he was pleased and happy and flattered. She was evidently frightfully gone on him.
gloss: Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
pos: adj
tags: US
dated
informal
examples: It was a group of real gone cats.
“All right, all right, don’t drop your gold all over the place. I have found the gonest little girl in the world and I am going straight to the Lion’s Den with her tonight.”
Dad, I want to be a jock. All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image. Now, they just don't teach that jazz in college.
gloss: Ago (used post-positionally).
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Six nights gone, your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.
gloss: Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
pos: adj
gloss: Used with a duration to indicate for how long a process has been developing, an action has been performed or a state has persisted; especially, pregnant.
pos: adj
examples: She’s three months gone
gloss: Past, after, later than (a time).
pos: prep
tags: UK
informal
examples: You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.
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