finished

[fin-isht]

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

Related formshalf-fin·ished, adjectivewell-fin·ished, adjective

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Examples from the Web for half-finished

Historical Examples of half-finished

He glanced at the half-finished letter that lay on his wife's desk.
The Film of Fear
Arnold Fredericks
I had only half-finished my dinner, and it was time for me to be at the shop.
Real Ghost Stories
William T. Stead
I cannot leave a half-finished work—I cannot and I will not!
The Home
Fredrika Bremer
All about the house, everywhere, there are half-finished things.
How to Succeed
Orison Swett Marden
He stood before his easel, on which rested a half-finished canvas.
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893
Various

British Dictionary definitions for half-finished

half-finished

adjective

only partially completeda half-finished jigsaw puzzle

finished

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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