finished

[ fin-isht ]
/ ˈfɪn ɪʃt /

adjective

ended or completed.
completed or perfected in all details, as a product: to pack and ship finished items.
polished to the highest degree of excellence: a dazzling and finished piece of writing.
highly skilled or accomplished: a finished violinist.
condemned, doomed, or in the process of extinction: The aristocracy was finished after the revolution.
(of livestock) fattened and ready for market.

Origin of finished

First recorded in 1575–85; finish + -ed2

OTHER WORDS FROM finished

half-fin·ished, adjective well-fin·ished, adjective

Definition for finished (2 of 2)

Origin of finish

1300–50; Middle English finisshen < Anglo-French, Middle French finiss-, long stem of finir < Latin fīnīre to end. See fine1

synonym study for finish

13. See end1.

OTHER WORDS FROM finish

fin·ish·er, noun non·fin·ish·ing, adjective, noun pre·fin·ish, verb (used with object), noun

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH finish

Finnish finish

Example sentences from the Web for finished

British Dictionary definitions for finished (1 of 2)

finished
/ (ˈfɪnɪʃt) /

adjective

perfected
(predicative) at the end of a task, activity, etc they were finished by four
(predicative) without further hope of success or continuation she was finished as a prima ballerina

British Dictionary definitions for finished (2 of 2)

finish
/ (ˈfɪnɪʃ) /

verb (mainly tr)

noun

Word Origin for finish

C14: from Old French finir, from Latin fīnīre see fine 1

Idioms and Phrases with finished

finish

see from soup to nuts (start to finish); in at the death (finish).