Definition

1. Adjective (informal):
   • In a hopeless situation; facing certain failure, ruin, or death: Used to describe someone or something that is beyond help or recovery, with no chance of success or survival.
   • Exhausted; completely worn out: Used to describe a state of extreme physical or mental fatigue.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective: (We will certainly be destroyed or killed.) (I felt utterly exhausted.) (The company will certainly fail or be ruined.)

Advanced Usage

• "to be done for": The most common structure. It functions as a predicative adjective (following a form of "to be").
• Can describe objects or abstract concepts as being irreparably broken or finished.

Variants and Related Words

• Doomed (adj): Likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome. (More formal than "done for").
• Finished (adj, informal): No longer effective, successful, or able to continue.
• Goner (n, informal): A person or thing that is doomed or beyond recovery.

Synonyms

• Ruined: Having been irreparably damaged or destroyed.
• Doomed: Certain to fail, suffer, or die.
• Finished: At an end; completely exhausted or defeated.
• Kaput (informal): Broken and useless; finished.

Related Phrases

• Dead meat (idiom, informal): In serious trouble; doomed.
• Gone goose (idiom, informal): Someone or something that is finished or doomed. (As seen in the reference: "we are gone geese").

Adjective

1. doomed to extinction
2. destroyed or killed
   • we are gone geese