Definition of "far-gone" [far-gone]

• Very close to or nearing the end: a drug addict too far-gone for rehabilitation. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "If you are too far-gone, try titles that may remind you of the series, including Little Women, Far from the Madding Crowd, and The Mad Woman of Chaillot."
• "One more pretty boy, already entranced, already far-gone."
• "Though the ending provides a surprise, the man becomes so violent, and the woman so degraded, that the content could well spark feminist outrage; yet the entire novel and its protagonist are too excessive, too far-gone, for such judgment to be appropriate."