1
: not done : not performed or finished
some tasks left undone
2
: not fastened or tied
My shoelace is undone.
3
old-fashioned
: defeated or destroyed
was vanquished and undone
Examples of undone in a Sentence
There were still some tasks left undone.
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Plenty of hair trends aim for the effortlessly undone look (while taking an ironic amount of effort to achieve), but that’s not the case with Hollywood waves.
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Grace McCarty, Glamour, 16 Dec. 2025
At one point, Day also came to Cruise’s rescue after noticing one of the buttons on his shirt had come undone.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
The outing, shared in part on her Instagram Stories while celebrating a friend’s birthday, placed the actress at the center of fashion’s growing return to snakeskin while tying the print to an undone menswear silhouette.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 6 Dec. 2025
Still, the actors are game, and that’s half the battle — even though the film’s positing Miles Teller as the dorky beta to Callum Turner’s hunky alpha is somewhat undone by the fact that the two actors don’t look all that different from each other.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
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Grace McCarty, Glamour, 16 Dec. 2025
At one point, Day also came to Cruise’s rescue after noticing one of the buttons on his shirt had come undone.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
The outing, shared in part on her Instagram Stories while celebrating a friend’s birthday, placed the actress at the center of fashion’s growing return to snakeskin while tying the print to an undone menswear silhouette.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 6 Dec. 2025
Still, the actors are game, and that’s half the battle — even though the film’s positing Miles Teller as the dorky beta to Callum Turner’s hunky alpha is somewhat undone by the fact that the two actors don’t look all that different from each other.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
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“Undone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/undone. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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undone
adjective
un·done
ˌən-ˈdən 
: not done
an undone task
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