undone
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʌnˈdʌn/
Audio (southern England) File:LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-undone.wav (file) - Rhymes: -ʌn
Etymology 1
From un- + done.
Adjective
undone (not comparable)
- Not done.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- Even so, it was found necessary to leave certain tasks undone.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English undon, from Old English ondōn, from Proto-Germanic *andadōnaz, past participle of *andadōną (“to undo”), equivalent to undo + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Dutch ontdaan (“stripped, undone, upset”).
Adjective
undone (not comparable)
- Not fastened.
- Your flies are undone.
- Ruined; brought to nought.
- Woe is me, for I am utterly undone!
Translations
unfastened
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brought to nought
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Verb
undone
- past participle of undo
Derived terms
- come undone
- undoneness
Anagrams
- nouned