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

With multiple companies able to utilize general intelligence similarly, what will differentiate your firm from another will be the ability of your model to understand the work that needs to be done. — Terdawn Deboe, Forbes.com, 22 July 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

By that point, almost five minutes down on yellow jersey Tadej Pogačar, the Tour may already have been done — save for an incomprehensible effort over Alpe d’Huez, or misfortune to Pogacar himself. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Or any other details in this first drive report—the hybrid Seltos is still undergoing its EPA certification, and Kia isn’t prepared to talk power, torque, or efficiency until that’s done and dusted. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 21 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

Local issue Republican Nicholas Reinecker and Democrat Curt Skoog both said that real property tax reform would need to be done at the local level with citizens attending meetings and running for office. — Cuyler Dunn, Kansas City Star, 21 July 2026

This is my chance to get some work done while the house is quiet. — Ginny Hogan, New Yorker, 21 July 2026

For many South Floridians, however, getting ahead financially feels easier said than done. — Bonnie Laden, CBS News, 14 July 2026

Phrases Containing done

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