done
done Lexical Profile
done Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Having been carried out, accomplished, or brought to completion.
"Please let the supervisor know as soon as the inventory audit is done."
Cooked thoroughly or to the desired degree of readiness.
"Check the center of the roast with a thermometer to make sure the meat is done."
No longer happening, relevant, or engaged in a particular activity; completely exhausted.
"After running three miles in the summer heat, he was completely done."
Socially acceptable, proper, or conventional according to etiquette.
"Arriving unannounced at a formal dinner is simply not the done thing."
• verb
To perform, execute, or complete an action, duty, or task (past participle of do).
"She has already done everything required to finalize the research grant."
• interjection
Used to express immediate acceptance of an offer, proposal, or bargain.
"If you can deliver the materials by Friday for that price, then done!"
Word Nuance & Usage
Traditional usage guides sometimes distinguish between 'finished' (meaning completed, as in a task) and 'done' (meaning cooked thoroughly, as in food), though in modern standard English 'done' is universally accepted for both senses.
• Rhymes for done
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English don, from Old English gedon, the past participle of don ('to do, perform, make'), derived from Proto-Germanic *dona-.