adj
Meaning 1
Not done.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
undone
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ʌnˈdʌn/
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CMU ARPABET: AH0 N D AH1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Not fastened.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- Your flies are undone.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Ruined; brought to nought.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- Woe is me, for I am utterly undone!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: beaten, vanquished, worsted, foiled, bested, broken, confounded, conquered, defeated, licked, overcome, overpowered, pwned, recreant, rekt, routed, stonkered, subjugated, thwarted, undone, wrecked
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
past participle of undo
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
not done
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the work could be done or undone and nobody cared
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- price programs became unstuck because little grain was available
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unstuck
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
not fastened or tied or secured
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- her blouse had come undone at the neck
- his shoelaces were undone
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
doomed to extinction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: done for(p), ruined, sunk, washed-up
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English done English undone From un- + done.
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”).
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: несвършен (nesvǎršen) — Not done
- Catalan: desfet — Not done
- Czech: neudělaný — Not done
- Czech: nedodělaný — Not done
- Dutch: ongedaan — Not done
- Spanish: deshecho — Not done
- Bulgarian: отворен (otvoren) — unfastened
- Bulgarian: развързан (razvǎrzan) — unfastened
- Czech: rozepnutý — unfastened
- Czech: nezapnutý — unfastened
- Czech: rozvázaný — unfastened
- German: ungesichert — unfastened
- Māori: matoha — unfastened
- Māori: matara — unfastened
- Portuguese: desamarrado — unfastened
- Portuguese: solto — unfastened
- Czech: zničený — brought to nought
- German: verloren — brought to nought
- Latin: infectus — brought to nought