gone
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Is gone a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (colloquial) Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.Examples: "Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone."; "[S]he put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone[…]."colloquial
2. (slang) Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).Examples: "I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you."; "But he was pleased and happy and flattered. She was evidently frightfully gone on him."slang
3. (informal, US, dated) Excellent, wonderful; crazy.Examples: "It was a group of real gone cats."; "“All right, all right, don’t drop your gold all over the place. I have found the gonest little girl in the world and I am going straight to the Lion’s Den with her tonight.”"; "Dad, I want to be a jock. All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image. Now, they just don't teach that jazz in college."USdatedinformal
4. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).Examples: "Six nights gone, your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock."archaic
5. (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.US
prep (English)
1. (British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).Examples: "You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock."Britishinformal
Definition source: Wiktionary