gone

Other forms of gone

comparative

goner·

superlative

gonest·

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.

Questions about gone

What does gone mean?

gone means "destroyed or killed". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gone?

gone has 1 syllable: gone. In IPA it is /ˈɡɔn/.

What is another word for gone?

Close synonyms include done for, kaput, asleep, at peace, at rest. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gone a common word?

gone is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with gone?

3 words rhyme with gone. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.