undone

adj — 3 senses

undone

adj

/ʌnˈdʌn/

Etymology From un- + done.

1

Not 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:

undone

adj

Etymology 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”).

1

Not fastened.

  • Your flies are undone.
2

Ruined; brought to nought.

  • Woe is me, for I am utterly undone!
  • 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:

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