done with
Definition
- Adjective:
- Having no further concern with; having finished or ended one's involvement with something or someone: This describes a state where a person has completed, terminated, or abandoned a particular activity, relationship, or object and no longer has any interest or connection to it.
- Having given up or renounced a habit or practice: This meaning emphasizes a deliberate decision to stop engaging in a specific, often negative, behavior.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- After the final exam, she was done with her studies for the semester. (She had completed them and had no further academic obligations.)
- I am done with this old computer; it's time for an upgrade. (I have finished using it and have no further need for it.)
- He told his friends he was done with complaining and wanted to focus on solutions. (He had decided to stop the habit of complaining.)
Advanced Usage
- "to be done with someone": To have ended a relationship or association with a person, often due to frustration or conflict.
- After the constant arguments, she was finally done with him.
- "to be done with it": To finish or settle something decisively, often to achieve closure.
- Let's pay the bill and be done with it so we can leave.
Variants and Related Words
- Through (with) (adj., informal): A common synonym, especially in American English, meaning finished or having had enough.
- I am through with this project.
- Finished (with) (adj.): Having completed something.
- Are you finished with the newspaper?
Synonyms
- Finished with: Completed involvement.
- Through with: No longer engaged with.
- Over with: Ended, especially something unpleasant.
Related Phrasal Verbs
(Note: "done with" itself functions as an adjective phrase. Related phrasal verbs involve the base verb "do.") - Do away with: To abolish or get rid of. - The company decided to do away with the old policy. - Have done with: To finish or settle something, similar to "be done with it." - Let's have done with these formalities and start the meeting.
Related Idioms
- Done and dusted: Completely finished or settled.
- The contract is signed, so the deal is done and dusted.
- What's done is done: Said when you cannot change something that has already happened.
- We made a mistake, but what's done is done.
Adjective
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having no further concern with
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he was through with school and he was through with family- John Dos Passos
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done with gambling
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done with drinking
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