done

Having completed or finished an activity.

Adjective

  1. Having completed or finished an activity.
    • He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done."
    • They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.

    Synonyms: finished through

  2. Completed or finished.
    • I'll text you when the movie's done.

    Synonyms: completed concluded finished in the books complete done ended

  3. Ready, fully cooked.
    • As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
  4. Being exhausted, used up, or fully spent.
    • When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
  5. Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
    • He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.

    Synonyms: accursed fey undone condemned cursed sunk cussed damned dead meat doomed done finished ill-fated lost sentenced

  6. Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
    • I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done!
    • What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!

    Synonyms: a la mode natty trendy a la mode/à la mode all the rage chic sassy cool dapper done elegant fashionable groovy happening hep hip in in fashion jaunty modish on fleek on trend pizazzy spiffing

  7. Finished with (something).
    • I'm done my homework.
  8. Punished.
    • I can say what I like now because I am mental and I can't get done for it. - 2012 May 1, Liam Houlihan, Return To The Badlands: Twelve Enthralling True Cases Of Crooks, Cults And Crackpots, Melbourne Univ. Publishing,...
    • Normally, when you pass a law in New Zealand, you can't be done for it if you broke the law in the past. - 2021, Brooke van Velden, comments in the New Zealand Parliament regarding the COVID-19 Response (Management...

    Synonyms: chastised done punished

Origin

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.

Forms

more done most done dyun

Derived

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

Interjection

  1. Expresses that a task has been completed.
  2. Expresses agreement to and conclusion of a proposal, a set of terms, a sale, a request, etc.
    • Riker: Would you be interested in selling me the ore you're carrying? / Yog: No. I have a buyer. / Riker: You haven't heard my offer. Half a gram of Anjoran biomimetic gel. / Yog: Done. - 1994, René Echevarria,...

Forms

dyun

Synonyms

all done finished there voilà agreed done and done you have a deal

Noun abbreviation, alt of

  1. Clipping of methadone.
    • on the done

Forms

'done

Noun alt of, alternative

  1. Alternative form of dhoni.

Forms

dones

Verb form of, participle

  1. past participle of do
    • There's nothing to be done.
  2. simple past of do; did.
    • I knew I done the right thing and I'd do it all over again. - 1985 December 14, Jack Leck, “Stick Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 22, page 4:
    • Be Still... and Know That I Am God: Devotions for Every Day of the Year She opened it up to find a quarter and a note scrawled in childish letters that said, "I done it for love."
  3. Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.
    • I woke up and found out she done left.
    • I done made some real bad choices with my life - 2020, Moneybagg Yo, “Thug Cry”:
    • On my soul, this for my kids and the cold shit I done did - 2022, Nas, “Legit”, in King's Disease III:

Forms

dyun

Verb form of, obsolete

  1. plural simple present of do
    • The while their Foes done eache of hem ſcoꝛne. - 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 18, verso:
    • O you Cæleſtiall euer-liuing fires, That done inflame our hearts with high deſires; […] - 1606, N[athaniel] B[axter], Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia, That Is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, Containing All Philosophie, London:...
    • The soul of Naboth lies to Ahab told, As done the learnèd Hebrew Doctours write, […] - 1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Antipsychopannychia or The Third Book of the Song of the Soul: Containing a Confutation of...

Origin

From Middle English don; equivalent to do + -en (plural simple present ending).