Gone is a slow-burn drama, but the gradual build-up is important as it shows how the pressure of the disappearance slowly causes the characters to fall apart. David Morrissey gives a strong performance as the detached headmaster, husband, and father at the centre of the story.
GONE definition: 1. past participle of go 2. later or older than: 3. If something is gone, there is none of it…. Learn more.
Adjective gone (comparative further gone or farther gone or goner, superlative furthest gone or farthest gone or gonest) Away, having left.
Examples of gone in a Sentence Adjective She should have been back by now. She's been gone for more than an hour. The outfielder went back to the fence and jumped, but the ball was gone.
- far gone, in an advanced state, as of love, exhaustion, or illness. 2. gone on, Informal. infatuated with; in love with. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
When someone is gone, they have left the place where you are and are no longer there. When something is gone, it is no longer present or no longer exists. While he was gone she had tea with the Colonel. He's already been gone four hours! By morning the smoke will be all gone.
gone /gɔn, gɑn/ v. pp. of go1. adj. [be + ~] departed; left: When I looked up, the customer was gone. past: Two years were gone. Idioms [be + ~] Idioms far gone, in an advanced or terminal state: The patient was too far gone to save.