释义 |
undone /ʌnˈdʌn /adjective1Not tied or fastened: the top few buttons of his shirt were undone...- The Walrus interrupted me at every possible opportunity, didn't listen to anything I said, sponged a coffee from me and sat there with his vast belly showing through an undone button in his shirt.
- In Athol and in Kensington, I see some houses that have been empty so long their curtains have given up holding on, have come undone thread by thread.
- He is trying to compete with David's undone buttons.
2Not done or finished: he had left his homework undone...- Teachers who don't pull their weight in the system dump their undone work onto teachers who are competent, making it almost impossible for those teachers to be optimally effective.
- The guys' pad has food scraps as decoration and stacks of undone dishes.
- We had great warm evenings for sitting out late and it was really relaxing without any means of doing those undone tasks at home.
Synonyms unfinished, incomplete, half-done; not started, not done, unaccomplished, unperformed, unexecuted, unfulfilled, unconcluded, unattended to, omitted, neglected, passed over, disregarded, ignored, left, remaining, outstanding, deferred, pending, on ice, awaiting attention, (up) in the air informal on the back burner 3 formal or humorous (Of a person) ruined by a disastrous or devastating setback or reverse: I am undone!...- And that makes me want to run around screaming and drooling on myself simultaneously to add to my disheveled, undone self.
- He felt completely undone knowing that they disapproved of him.
Synonyms defeated, beaten, foiled, frustrated, thwarted; finished, ruined, destroyed, doomed, lost informal washed up, done for, toast |