adjective
- No longer effective, capable, or valuable: done, finished, through, washed-up. Informal kaput. Idioms: at the end of thelineroad, over the hill, past one's prime. See ability/inability, start/end.
| Thesaurus: done for |
| Idioms: done for |
1.
Exhausted, worn out, as in This old computer is just about done for. [Colloquial; c. 1800] Also see
done in.
2.
Doomed to death or destruction, as in Before he went to the hospital it seemed as if he was done for. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]
| Antonyms: done for |
Definition: beaten, defeated
Antonyms: accomplished, successful
| WordNet: done for |
The adjective has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
(informal) destroyed or killed
Synonyms: kaput, gone
Meaning #2:
doomed to extinction
Synonyms: ruined, sunk, undone, washed-up
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