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undone

Syllables: un·done/ʌnˈdʌn/

undone adjective: not done. Also the past participle of undo.

Adjective (1)

undone (not comparable)

  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

Adjective (2)

undone (not comparable)

  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

Also used as

undone is also the past participle of undo.

undone meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam and Nepali

undone in Hindi

पूर्ववत किया गया

undone in Marathi

पूर्ववत केले

undone in Malayalam

പഴയപടിയാക്കി

undone in Nepali

पूर्ववत गरियो, पूर्ववत् गरियो

Examples of undone in a sentence

  • He was peeved to note that his hard work had been undone.
  • I received gigs for having buttons of my uniform undone.
  • The sewing has come undone on this seam.

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Synonyms of undone

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Origin of 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”).

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Words that rhyme with undone

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Questions about undone

What does undone mean?
Undone means not done.
What is undone in Hindi?
Undone in Hindi is पूर्ववत किया गया. See Undone meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is undone?
Undone is an adjective.
How do you pronounce undone?
Undone is pronounced /ʌnˈdʌn/.

Words near undone in the dictionary

  1. undomineering
  2. undominical
  3. undominoed
  4. undon
  5. undonated
  6. undone
  7. undoneness
  8. undonnish
  9. undoomed
  10. undoped
  11. undormant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undone (page history and authors); undone (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); undone (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); undone (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); undone (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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