finished

[ fin-isht ]

/ ˈfɪn ɪʃt /

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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.

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Origin of finished

First recorded in 1575–85; finish + -ed²

OTHER WORDS FROM finished

half-finished, adjectivewell-finished, adjective

Words nearby finished

finicky, fining, finis, finis coronat opus, finish, finished, finisher, finisher card, finishing, finishing nail, finishing school

How to use finished in a sentence

Epic says the software draws from an “ever-growing library of variants of human appearance and motion,” to give designers a robust starting point for their finished model.
Meet the eerily realistic digital people made with Epic’s MetaHuman Creator|Stan Horaczek|February 11, 2021|Popular-Science
Something to keep in mind is that in some ways, distance will have a greater impact on your finished dish than heat level.
Don’t Fear the Broiler|Elazar Sontag|February 11, 2021|Eater
The materials are ground for six to 12 hours before pieces are individually hand-dipped in the finished liquid.
How Traditional Korean Tableware Is Made for Michelin-Starred Restaurants|Eater Video|January 27, 2021|Eater
It then showed that by swapping text for pixels, the same approach could be used to train an AI to complete half-finished images.
This avocado armchair could be the future of AI|Will Heaven|January 5, 2021|MIT Technology Review

If you hit the focus and you get the exposure pretty close, you’re going to come away with a file that will look amazing as a finished image.
Hasselblad’s new $6,400 camera is weird and wonderful|Stan Horaczek|January 2, 2021|Popular-Science
He finished second in 2008 behind John McCain, and maintains a reservoir of good will among Republican social conservatives.
Can Huckabee Convert the GOP’s Moneymen?|Lloyd Green|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Pat Robertson finished second in the 1988 Iowa caucus, and it was all downhill from there.
Can Huckabee Convert the GOP’s Moneymen?|Lloyd Green|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
They finished out the tour without incident, while newspapers across the country picked up the story.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’|Peter Guralnick|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When I finished this talk, a government official approached me.
ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Growing Role of Human Trafficking in 21st Century Terrorism|Louise I. Shelley|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Please,” he laughed, handing me the map after he was finished sketching.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind|Brin-Jonathan Butler|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When we'd finished, one of the hunters rounded up the horses and we caught our nags and saddled them.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
Almost as soon as she had finished building her nest she had discovered a strange-looking egg there.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
When I had finished, the other guests had all gone out, but daylight was coming in, and I began to feel more at home.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
A few moments afterward he was seen dragging his own trunk ashore, while Mr. Hitchcock finished his story on the boiler deck.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various

British Dictionary definitions for finished

finished

/ (ˈfɪnɪʃt) /

adjective

perfected

(predicative) at the end of a task, activity, etcthey were finished by four

(predicative) without further hope of success or continuationshe was finished as a prima ballerina

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Origin of finished

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British Dictionary definitions for finished