2. cooked through: cooked as thoroughly as required I like my steak well done.
3. socially acceptable: acceptable according to the established rules and expectations of a society It's just not done.
4. exhausted: worn out or used up
(
informal
)
5. preordained: having been decided already, therefore permitting no changes
(
slang
)
It's a done deal, and you can't fight it.
interjection
Definition:
agreed: used to confirm acceptance of a deal
verb
Definition:
Southern U.S. already: used as an auxiliary verb to express the sense of "already"
(
nonstandard
)
He done leave.
adverb
Definition:
Southern U.S. truly or indeed: used for emphasis He's done dead.
have done with somethingU.K. to be finished with something and never return to it Why don't we just sell the house and have done with it?
the done thingU.K. the polite and proper thing to do in accordance with social etiquette
well done used to express praise or approval of something somebody has done
Regional History
The emphatic perfective I done told you extends to the adverbial usage He's done dead in folk speech across the Southern states and into the Caribbean.
