undone

1. 1.

   not done

   “the work could be done or undone and nobody cared”

   Similarunfinished
2. 2.

   doomed to extinction

   Synonymsdone forruinedsunkwashed-up

   Similarunsuccessful
3. 3.

   not fastened or tied or secured

   “her blouse had come undone at the neck”

   “his shoelaces were undone”

   Similarunfastened
4. 4.

   thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence

   “price programs became unstuck because little grain was available”

   Synonymsunstuck

   Similardisorganized

Other forms of undone

comparative

undoner·

superlative

undonest·

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 undone

What does undone mean?

undone means "not done". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in undone?

undone has 2 syllables: un-done. The stress falls on "done". In IPA it is /ənˈdʌn/.

What is another word for undone?

Close synonyms include done for, ruined, sunk, washed-up, unstuck. 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 undone a common word?

undone is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 undone?

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