finished

finished [fin-isht] ExamplesWord Origin adjective

1. ended or completed.
2. completed or perfected in all details, as a product: to pack and ship finished items.
3. polished to the highest degree of excellence: a dazzling and finished piece of writing.
4. highly skilled or accomplished: a finished violinist.
5. condemned, doomed, or in the process of extinction: The aristocracy was finished after the revolution.
6. (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 Examples from the Web for well-finished Historical Examples of well-finished

But, if Im forced to be a fool, I might as well have a well-finished job of it.

The Making of Bobby Burnit

George Randolph Chester

There are also a pair of well-finished pistols in the holsters.

On the Irrawaddy

G. A. Henty

They are well-finished English pistols, and I have no doubt he will prize them.

The Tiger of Mysore

G. A. Henty

They had well-finished lances in their hands, twenty feet long, and highly carved and polished clubs and pikes.

Captain Cook

W.H.G. Kingston

We say artists, for these goods are as much a work of art as any piece of statuary, or a well-finished oil painting.

The Story of Malta

Maturin M. Ballou

British Dictionary definitions for well-finished well-finished adjective (well finished when postpositive)

1. (of a garment, piece of furniture, interior decoration, etc) completed with a high degree of attention to detail and surface appearancethe woodwork is well finished

finished adjective

1. perfected
2. (predicative) at the end of a task, activity, etcthey were finished by four
3. (predicative) without further hope of success or continuationshe was finished as a prima ballerina