finished

[ fin-isht ]
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adjective
  1. ended or completed.

  2. completed or perfected in all details, as a product: to pack and ship finished items.

  1. polished to the highest degree of excellence: a dazzling and finished piece of writing.

  2. highly skilled or accomplished: a finished violinist.

  3. condemned, doomed, or in the process of extinction: The aristocracy was finished after the revolution.

  4. (of livestock) fattened and ready for market.

Origin of finished

1
First recorded in 1575–85; finish + -ed2

Other words from finished

  • half-finished, adjective
  • well-finished, adjective

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How to use finished in a sentence

  • In the meanwhile, I'm working up the notes I spoke from into a more finished form which I'll post here in the next days.

    Is the New Deal a Done Deal? | David Frum | September 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • The more it has been made the subject of illustration and imagery, the more finished and ornate have been the comminations in use.

  • Learning comes easy in such a school as Mooseheart, and many of the boys go out with two or more finished trades.

    The Iron Puddler | James J. Davis
  • One of her professors said that he had never heard more finished recitations than hers.

    The Education of American Girls | Anna Callender Brackett
  • A contemporary, but more finished form; the sharp furrows becoming softer, and the whole leaf more flexible.

  • It is much more finished than I wished, and shall be sent to Kensington as soon as Mrs. Ryder has taken a slight sketch of it.

British Dictionary definitions for finished

finished

/ (ˈfɪnɪʃt) /


adjective
  1. perfected

  2. (predicative) at the end of a task, activity, etc: they were finished by four

  1. (predicative) without further hope of success or continuation: she was finished as a prima ballerina

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