gone
UK /ɡɒn/ · US /ɡɔn/ adjective, preposition
Also a form of go
Forms further gone farther gone goner furthest gone farthest gone gonest
- adjective Away, having left. “Are they gone already?”
- adjective No longer existing, having passed. “The days of my youth are gone.”
- adjective Used up. “I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.”
- adjective Broken, failed. “The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?”
- adjective Dead.
- adjective Doomed, done for. “Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.”
- adjective (colloquial) Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline. “Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.”
- adjective (slang) Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
- preposition (UK, informal) Past, after, later than (a time). “You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.”
Synonyms
done for kaput asleep at peace at rest deceased departed bygone bypast foregone
Etymology
From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “gone”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details