Synonyms of done

done 1 of 2

adjective

1

as in finished

brought or having come to an end

the demanding job was finally done

Synonyms & Similar Words

• finished
• completed
• complete
• up
• ended
• accomplished
• over
• through
• down
• terminated
• concluded
• realized
• out of hand
• out of the way
• defunct
• achieved
• over with
• attained
• expired
• obsolete
• extinct
• compassed
• dead
• kaput

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ongoing
• incomplete
• unfinished
• continuing
• uncompleted
• undone

2

as in exhausted

depleted in strength, energy, or freshness

after bicycling 30 miles we were completely done

Synonyms & Similar Words

• exhausted
• tired
• drained
• spent
• worn
• beaten
• beat
• wearied
• weary
• dead
• tapped out
• worn to a frazzle
• wiped out
• fatigued
• pooped
• played out
• all in
• bushed
• limp
• prostrate
• knackered
• jaded
• aweary
• tuckered (out)
• logy
• bleary
• weakened
• overworked
• washed-out
• sleepy
• worn-out
• burned-out
• overtaxed
• sapped
• overfatigued
• debilitated
• enfeebled
• broken-down
• enervated
• sluggish
• lethargic
• drowsy
• heavy
• run-down
• enervate

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rested
• unwearied
• fresh
• rejuvenated
• relaxed
• refreshed
• active
• strengthened
• strong
• energetic
• revitalized
• tireless
• invigorated
• vitalized
• peppy
• weariless

3

as in doomed

facing certain defeat, disaster, or death

at this point retailing in the city's downtown is done

Synonyms & Similar Words

• finished
• doomed
• ruined
• sunk
• endangered
• done for
• dead
• kaput
• imperiled

4

as in extinct

no longer existing

the day of the small independent grocer is done

Synonyms & Similar Words

• extinct
• gone
• defunct
• vanished
• expired
• departed
• bygone
• dead
• faded
• nonextant
• obsolete
• fallen
• dying
• bypast
• finished
• nonexistent
• terminated
• collapsed
• lost
• antiquated
• moribund
• dated
• missing
• lapsed
• overthrown
• passé

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• alive
• existing
• extant
• living
• active
• dynamic
• existent
• thriving
• vibrant

done

2 of 2

verb

past participle of do

1

as in gone

to be fitting or proper

that outfit just won't do for the opera

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gone
• sufficed
• served
• fitted
• suited
• satisfied
• worked
• befitted
• filled the bill
• beseemed
• functioned

2

as in sufficed

to be enough

even half of that amount of sugar will do

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sufficed
• served
• satisfied
• answered
• suited
• contented
• quenched
• satiated
• sated
• assuaged

3

as in made

to carry through (as a process) to completion

do as much as you can and leave the rest

Synonyms & Similar Words

• made
• accomplished
• performed
• achieved
• executed
• committed
• negotiated
• completed
• fulfilled
• carried out
• perpetrated
• finished
• prosecuted
• gone through
• implemented
• carried off
• pulled off
• effected
• put through
• practiced
• brought off
• brought about
• followed through (with)
• realized
• compassed
• worked (at)
• engaged (in)
• effectuated
• nailed
• attained
• repeated
• ended
• aced
• reenacted
• actualized
• wound up
• reduplicated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• failed
• slighted
• slurred
• skimped

4

as in decorated

to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming

did the living room in French provincial style

Synonyms & Similar Words

• decorated
• adorned
• draped
• painted
• beautified
• garnished
• enriched
• graced
• decked
• dressed
• ornamented
• embellished
• done up
• festooned
• trimmed
• embossed
• gussied up
• arrayed
• prettied (up)
• dolled up
• bedecked
• blazoned
• bedizened
• caparisoned
• fancied up
• brightened
• trapped
• fancified
• tricked (out)
• freshened
• smartened
• glitzed (up)
• accessorized
• figured
• emblazed
• chased
• embroidered
• filleted
• redone
• spruced (up)
• braided
• dressed up
• garlanded
• redecorated
• hung
• bossed
• feathered
• swagged
• flounced
• fringed
• gilded
• ribboned
• furbelowed
• diamonded
• frilled
• wreathed
• impearled
• laced
• gemmed
• jeweled
• appliquéd
• filigreed
• pearled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• scarred
• marred
• simplified
• defaced
• revealed
• spoiled
• disfigured
• displayed
• exposed
• blemished
• streamlined
• uncovered
• stripped
• dismantled
• denuded
• divested
• bared
• uglified

5

as in managed

to meet one's day-to-day needs

I'm doing just fine

Synonyms & Similar Words

• managed
• survived
• shifted
• coped
• got by
• made shift
• fared
• made do
• got along
• made out
• got on
• lasted
• made ends meet
• squeezed
• swung
• fended for oneself
• carried on
• afforded
• scrounged
• contrived
• scraped (by or through)
• eked out
• scraped (out)
• wrung
• wrested

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• failed
• collapsed
• declined
• waned
• floundered
• fallen short
• slumped
• fizzled
• given up
• petered (out)

6

as in created

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

this neighborhood cleanup effort might just do some good

Synonyms & Similar Words

• created
• brought
• caused
• prompted
• spawned
• produced
• generated
• made
• effected
• worked
• invoked
• induced
• brought about
• inaugurated
• yielded
• brought forth
• brought on
• drawn on
• occasioned
• resulted (in)
• translated (into)
• engendered
• effectuated
• bred
• initiated
• given rise to
• begun
• founded
• catalyzed
• introduced
• begotten
• launched
• contributed (to)
• determined
• started
• established
• decided
• instituted
• encouraged
• pioneered
• developed
• promoted
• enacted
• forwarded
• rendered
• set up
• conduced (to)
• cultivated
• fostered
• set
• nurtured
• innovated
• furthered
• turned out
• advanced
• fathered
• nourished

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• limited
• restricted
• impeded
• checked
• suppressed
• controlled
• crushed
• arrested
• subdued
• put down
• restrained
• quashed
• smothered
• stifled
• repressed
• inhibited
• dampened
• killed
• retarded
• curbed
• destroyed
• quelled
• squashed
• squelched
• abolished
• stilled
• canned
• clamped down (on)
• liquidated
• demolished
• cracked down (on)
• extinguished
• reined (in)
• quenched
• snuffed (out)

7

as in imitated

to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of

the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again

Synonyms & Similar Words

• imitated
• mimicked
• emulated
• reproduced
• parodied
• performed
• mocked
• sent up
• caricatured
• burlesqued
• travestied
• spoofed
• played
• simulated
• replicated
• ridiculed
• pretended
• satirized
• derided
• duplicated
• lampooned
• elaborated
• aped
• parroted
• gibed
• feigned
• monkeyed
• acted
• dissembled
• played up
• enlarged (on or upon)
• embroidered
• exaggerated
• overstated
• enhanced
• embellished
• pasquinaded
• mimed
• counterfeited
• padded
• shammed
• faked
• fleshed (out)
• expanded
• pantomimed
• amplified
• put on
• copycatted
• magnified
• stretched
• overdrawn
• personated
• impersonated

8

as in come

to move forward along a course

how are you doing with the house restoration?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• come
• progressed
• proceeded
• gone
• marched
• gone along
• fared
• come along
• gone off
• forged
• gained ground
• got along
• advanced
• got on
• paced
• approached
• sped
• traveled
• accelerated
• repaired
• passed
• pushed
• run
• driven
• neared
• journeyed
• fast-forwarded
• propelled
• taken out
• actuated
• impelled
• wended

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• remained
• stopped
• stood
• stayed
• checked
• arrested
• blocked
• hindered
• halted
• interrupted
• impeded
• delayed
• detained
• stemmed
• suppressed
• held back
• obstructed
• slowed (down or up)
• stalled
• hampered
• ceased
• paused
• repressed
• inhibited
• balked
• waited
• retarded
• stunted
• nipped
• cramped
• regressed
• let up

9

as in performed

to present a portrayal or performance of

she's done Eliza Doolittle on the stage so many times that she can probably play the flower girl in her sleep

Synonyms & Similar Words

• performed
• played
• interpreted
• portrayed
• acted
• impersonated
• represented
• enacted
• rendered
• dramatized
• acted out
• depicted
• role-played
• taken on
• posed (as)
• mimicked
• pantomimed
• masqueraded
• underplayed
• aped
• imitated
• playacted
• overplayed
• mimed
• clowned
• starred (in)
• overacted
• hammed
• costarred
• coacted

10

as in cheated

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

did them out of their savings with surprising ease

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheated
• squeezed
• plucked
• beaten
• hustled
• stung
• bled
• screwed
• stuck
• done in
• victimized
• shortchanged
• fiddled
• shaken down
• diddled
• defrauded
• taken for a ride
• conned
• rooked
• reamed
• ripped off
• swindled
• suckered
• stiffed
• skinned
• hosed
• cozened
• shorted
• fleeced
• mulcted
• flimflammed
• clipped
• bilked
• gaffed
• chiseled
• taken to the cleaners
• euchred
• choused
• exploited
• tricked
• nobbled
• thimblerigged
• skunked
• wrenched
• extorted
• fooled
• sold a bill of goods to
• deceived
• soaked
• nicked
• milked
• wrung
• gouged
• duped
• betrayed
• overcharged
• wrested
• gulled
• bitched
• double-crossed
• bamboozled
• roped (in)
• fast-talked

11

as in pounded

to strike repeatedly

no one is sure who did them in that alley

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pounded
• licked
• battered
• attacked
• hided
• beaten
• assaulted
• smashed
• raided
• whipped
• worked over
• slated
• punched
• stormed
• chopped
• switched
• lashed
• wounded
• punched out
• hammered
• knocked
• lathered
• pummeled
• flogged
• thrashed
• slapped
• lambasted
• batted
• fibbed
• paddled
• basted
• buffeted
• thumped
• clubbed
• bashed
• mauled
• whupped
• slogged
• curried
• hit
• tanned
• threshed
• slammed
• bludgeoned
• belabored
• laced
• tromped
• pommeled
• rushed
• roughed (up)
• messed (up)
• laid on
• pelted
• smacked
• walloped
• birched
• whaled
• beaten up on
• descended (on or upon)
• swiped
• belted
• whopped
• bunged up
• whacked
• drubbed
• pasted
• boxed
• clobbered
• spanked
• jumped (on)
• assailed
• cracked
• beset
• socked
• strapped
• cuffed
• clouted
• busted
• scourged
• caned
• pounced (on or upon)
• swatted
• cudgeled
• lammed
• thwacked
• whomped
• flagellated
• whammed
• horsewhipped
• mutilated
• blackjacked
• fustigated
• mangled
• maimed
• lacerated
• cowhided
• gored
• rawhided
• leathered
• pistol-whipped

12

as in happened

to take place

nothing's ever doing in this boring little town

Synonyms & Similar Words

• happened
• come
• been
• occurred
• cooked
• transpired
• come down
• gone down
• gone on
• come about
• befallen
• passed
• come to pass
• happed
• chanced
• come off
• betided
• developed
• proceeded
• risen
• intervened
• shaped (up)
• come up
• resulted
• arisen
• followed
• materialized
• sprung (up)
• cropped (up)
• turned out
• broken
• fallen out
• gone off

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of done

Verb

The impact set several fires in an industrial zone, Vorobyov wrote, with damage also done to an administrative building and an electrical substation. — David Brennan, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026

The only real equivalent from that generation was Alexander McQueen, and the Met has already done a McQueen exhibition. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026

This was not one of those elopements where the couple secretly lets a few people in on the secret — this was done entirely privately, with both families completely in the dark. — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2026

Wardle said that after roadwork is done near the Costco site, Brighton would expand the west side of Meridian Road. — Rose Evans august 4, Idaho Statesman, 4 Aug. 2026

If the paste-rinse-repeat method isn’t getting the job done, apply another layer of paste and cover the area with plastic wrap. — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Aug. 2026

Few will believe that Brock Lesnar is actually done, especially with his announcement coming on a show where multiple WWE storylines have commenced. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

There has been some opposition, including from the Mauthausen Committee, Austria’s main Holocaust survivors’ group, which has argued both that a police station is inappropriate and that more should be done to draw attention to Hitler’s crimes. — CNN Money, 22 July 2026

Shelton met Talarico years ago and believes in him as a candidate but says work needs to be done to bridge the gap with the Black community. — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 July 2026

Phrases Containing done

• done for
• have done (with)
• have done with