UNDONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undone mean? 

• UNDONE (adjective)
  The adjective UNDONE has 4 senses:

1. not done

2. doomed to extinction

3. not fastened or tied or secured

4. thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence

  Familiarity information: UNDONE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDONE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not done

Context example:

the work could be done or undone and nobody cared

Similar:

unfinished (not brought to an end or conclusion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Doomed to extinction

Synonyms:

done for; ruined; sunk; undone; washed-up

Similar:

unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not fastened or tied or secured

Context example:

his shoelaces were undone

Similar:

unfastened (not closed or secured)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence

Synonyms:

undone; unstuck

Context example:

price programs became unstuck because little grain was available

Similar:

disorganised; disorganized (lacking order or methodical arrangement or function)

 Context examples 

I should have fled in terror and left my work undone.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But alas! how woefully he was undone! what crosses and sorrows happen to us all in this world!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Bertrand, Bertrand! we are undone for the buds of her bud are even as our choicest flower!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There is nothing she would leave undone to prove it,” said I.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Certainly a grey mist swirled before my eyes, and when it cleared I found my collar-ends undone and the tingling after-taste of brandy upon my lips.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I can do that conscientiously, said Carter, who had now undone the bandages; only I wish I could have got here sooner: he would not have bled so much—but how is this?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Leave undone or leave out; get rid of.

(Drop, NCI Thesaurus)

My cravat came undone in the street, and I actually walked from Carlton House to Watier’s in Bruton Street with the two ends hanging loose.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is goal that can’t be undone, nor would you want to do so—it will be a goal worth working toward, for it will form one of the major pillars of your life.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You left nothing undone.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)