finished

Verb

• come or bring to a finish or an end
  • "He finished the dishes"
  • "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours"
• finally be or do something
• have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
• provide with a finish
  • "The carpenter finished the table beautifully"
  • "this shirt is not finished properly"
• finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
• cause to finish a relationship with somebody
  • "That finished me with Mary"
• simple past and past participle of finish

Adjective

• (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state
  • "a finished product"
• ended or brought to an end
  • "are you finished?"
  • "gave me the finished manuscript"

Adjective Satellite

• (of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected
  • "a dazzling and finished piece of writing"
  • "a finished violinist"
• having a surface coating or finish applied
  • "the finished bookcase costs much more than the unfinished ones"
• brought to ruin
  • "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"

Adj

• Processed or perfected.
• Completed; concluded; done.
• Done for; doomed; used up.

Examples

• He finished the cabinet with two more layers of polyurethane.
• He gave a very finished, but uninspired performance.
• He wasn't finished cleaning up until nearly noon.
• He wasn't quite finished with his assignment.
• I won't be finished until just before lunch.
• The program was finally finished after three hours.

Synonyms

cease, complete, eat up, end, end up, fetch up, finish, finish up, land up, polish off, ruined, stop, terminate, wind up, accursed, completed, concluded, condemned, confounded, consumed, cursed, cussed, damnable, damned, dead meat, depleted, done, done up, doomed, effete, ended, exhausted, expended, fey, finished, forworn, gone, ill-fated, in the books, lost, low, over, sentenced, spent, sunk, undone, used up, wrecked

Antonyms

begin, unfinished, continuing, continuous, eternal, half-finished, lasting, ongoing, unbegun, uncommenced, unstarted

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