undone

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈdʌn/

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• Rhymes: -ʌn
• Hyphenation: un‧done

From un- + done.

undone (not comparable)

1. Not done.
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     Even so, it was found necessary to leave certain tasks undone.

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”).

undone (not comparable)

1. Not fastened.

   Your flies are undone.

2. Ruined; brought to nought.

   Synonyms: beaten, vanquished, worsted; see also Thesaurus:defeated

   Woe is me, for I am utterly undone!

   • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:

     Your hopes are murdered and undone.

undone

1. past participle of undo

• come undone
• undoneness

• nouned