undone

un·done
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/ʌnˈdʌn/

adjective

Not done.

“Your flies are undone.”

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beatenvanquishedworstedfoiledbestedbrokenconfoundedconquered
OriginEnglish done ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

undone1

adjectiveundone (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot done.

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

    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

undone2

adjectiveundone (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot fastened.

    Your flies are undone.

  2. not comparableRuined; brought to nought.

    Woe is me, for I am utterly undone!

    1 more example

    Your hopes are murdered and 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

    Synonyms: beaten, vanquished, worsted, foiled, beaten, bested, broken, confounded

verb
  1. participlepastpast participle of undo

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveRuined; brought to nought.

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beatenvanquishedworstedfoiledbeatenbestedbrokenconfoundedconquereddefeatedlickedovercomeoverpoweredpwnedrecreantrektroutedstonkeredsubjugatedthwarted

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adjectivenot done

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unfinished

adjectivedoomed to extinction

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done forruinedsunkwashed-upunsuccessful

adjectivenot fastened or tied or secured

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unfastened

adjectivethrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence

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unstuckdisorganizeddisorganised
Also see
accursedcondemnedcursedcusseddamneddonedone fordoomedfeyill-fatedovercomeruinedtormentedunfastenedunfinishedunstuckwrecked

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

undone · adjective

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishdone
  9. Englishundone

From un- + done.

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undone · adjective, verb

  1. Proto-Germanic*andadōnaz
  2. Old Englishondōn
  3. Middle Englishundon
  4. Englishundone

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”).

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Translations

Bulgarian несвършен, отворен
  • несвършен (nesvăršen)Not done
  • отворен (otvoren)unfastened
  • развързан (razvărzan)unfastened
Catalan desfet
  • desfetNot done
Czech neudělaný, nedodělaný
  • neudělanýNot done
  • nedodělanýNot done
  • rozepnutýunfastened
  • nezapnutýunfastened
  • rozvázanýunfastened
  • zničenýbrought to nought
Dutch ongedaan
  • ongedaanNot done
German ungesichert, verloren
  • ungesichertunfastened
  • verlorenbrought to nought
Latin infectus
  • infectusbrought to nought
Māori matoha, matara
  • matohaunfastened
  • mataraunfastened
Portuguese desamarrado, solto
  • desamarradounfastened
  • soltounfastened
Spanish deshecho
  • deshechoNot done

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with undone

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APA

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MLA

“undone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undone. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undone,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undone.

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