Undone Meaning
/ʌnˈdʌn/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjNot done.
adjNot fastened.
Sentence Examples
Your tie has come undone.
What is done cannot be undone.
We have left undone what we ought to have done.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The project remains ____ because we ran out of funding.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She realized that her laces had become ____, so she stopped to tie them before continuing her morning run today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English done English undone From un- + done.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The project remains ____ because we ran out of funding.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She realized that her laces had become ____, so she stopped to tie them before continuing her morning run today.