Antonyms for half-done

Grammar : Adj

Spell : duhn

Phonetic Transcription : dʌn

Definition of half-done

Origin : past participle of do; from Old English past participle gedon (a vestige of the prefix is in ado). U.S. Southern use of done in phrases like "he done gone to the store" is attested from 1827, according to OED: "a perfective auxiliary or with adverbial force in the sense 'already; completely.' " Meaning "finished" is early 15c. Slang done for "doomed" is from 1842.

As in incomplete : adj unfinished, wanting
As in unfinished : adj not completed

Example sentences :

I must choose surer hands—the work must not be half-done, as heretofore.
Extract from : « Rookwood » by William Harrison Ainsworth

You have half-done it, but only half, because you have not understood.
Extract from : « Our Square and the People in It » by Samuel Hopkins Adams

We have heaps of business to do in London—heaps—and the book is only half-done.
Extract from : « The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II » by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Irma shuffled over on her crooked high heels and returned with the half-done pajamas.
Extract from : « Working With the Working Woman » by Cornelia Stratton Parker

Nothing ever showed the wisdom of the proverb about half-done work, children and fools, better; and, alas!
Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 » by George Saintsbury

The haying on the island was about half-done; there was a short intermission in the work now, but it was to begin again very soon.
Extract from : « Our Little Canadian Cousin » by Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald

They'll have something more substantial for supper, I thought, beginning to crust the top of a black-looking, half-done biscuit.
Extract from : « From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It » by John Peele

And is there any sign to-day of full justice ever being done or half-done?
Extract from : « Catholic World, Vol. XIII, April to September, 1871 » by Various

It is better to do a small amount well than to leave much work in a half-done condition.
Extract from : « Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study » by Ontario Ministry of Education

He had heard that the managers had entered into negotiations with a new engineer, and he wished the man to find no half-done work.
Extract from : « That Lass O' Lowrie's » by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Synonyms for half-done

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