- IPA(key): /ʌnˈdʌn/
- Rhymes:-ʌn
- Hyphenation:un‧done
Fromun- +done.
undone (notcomparable)
- Notdone.
FromMiddle Englishundon, fromOld Englishondōn, fromProto-Germanic*andadōnaz, past participle of*andadōną(“to undo”), equivalent toundo +-en(past participle ending). Cognate withDutchontdaan(“stripped, undone, upset”).
undone (notcomparable)
- Notfastened.
Your flies areundone.
- Ruined;brought to nought.
Woe is me, for I am utterlyundone!
1941,Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, inOpen House, New York, N.Y.:Alfred A[braham] Knopf,→OCLC; republished inThe Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London:Faber and Faber […],1968,→OCLC,page 4:Your hopes are murdered andundone.
undone
- pastparticiple ofundo
