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say it: FIN-isht
finished is an adjective meaning "(of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state". It is pronounced /ˈfɪnɪʃt/ — FIN-isht. It carries 5 recorded senses.
(of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected
“a dazzling and finished piece of writing”
“a finished violinist”
having a surface coating or finish applied
“the finished bookcase costs much more than the unfinished ones”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for finished come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.