Antonyms for broken
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : broh-kuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbroʊ kən |
Definition of broken
Origin :- late 14c., past participle adjective from break (v.). Broken record in reference to someone continually repeating the same thing is from 1944, in reference to scratches on records that cause the needle to jump back and repeat.
- When Britain's Minister of State, Selwyn Lloyd[,] became bored with a speech by Russia's Andrei Vishinsky in UN debate, he borrowed a Dizzy Gillespie bebop expression and commented: "Dig that broken record." While most translators pondered the meaning, a man who takes English and puts it into Chinese gave this translation: "Recover the phonograph record which you have discarded." ["Jet," Oct. 15, 1953]
- adj destroyed; made into pieces from a whole
- adj discontinuous
- adj mentally defeated
- adj not working
- adj forgotten, ignored (promise)
- adj stuttering in speech
- This time he did not desist until he had broken through the panel.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- The narrative was broken off short by a cry of jubilee in the court.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- Found the barometer had got broken, which I was very sorry for.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- To the east, plains for at least thirty miles, when broken ranges were visible.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- How lucky I did not write to my father that I had broken matters off.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- A broken kitchen knife had been thrust through a bit of the paper on the box.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- Mr. Gladstone, as he gleefully remarked the other day, has broken the record.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- The bullets of the posse had neither torn a tendon nor broken a bone.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- Master has come back, broken down the door, and she is gone!
- Extract from : « To be Read at Dusk » by Charles Dickens
Synonyms for broken
- abandoned
- beaten
- browbeaten
- burst
- busted
- collapsed
- coming unglued
- coming unstuck
- cracked
- crippled
- crumbled
- crushed
- damaged
- defeated
- defective
- demolished
- demoralized
- depressed
- disabled
- disconnected
- discouraged
- disheartened
- dishonored
- disintegrated
- disjointed
- dismembered
- disobeyed
- disregarded
- disturbed
- down
- erratic
- exhausted
- fallen apart
- faulty
- feeble
- fractured
- fragmentary
- fragmented
- gone
- gone to pieces
- gone to pot
- halting
- haywire
- heartsick
- hesitant
- hesitating
- humbled
- hurt
- ignored
- imperfect
- in disrepair
- in need of repair
- in pieces
- in the shop
- incoherent
- incomplete
- infringed
- injured
- inoperable
- intermittent
- interrupted
- irregular
- isolated
- kaput
- mangled
- mumbled
- mutilated
- muttered
- not functioning
- on the blink
- on the fritz
- on the shelf
- oppressed
- out
- out of commission
- out of kilter
- out of order
- out of whack
- overpowered
- pulverized
- rent
- retracted
- riven
- ruined
- run-down
- ruptured
- screwed up
- separated
- severed
- shattered
- shivered
- shot
- shredded
- slivered
- smashed
- spasmodic
- spastic
- spent
- split
- stammering
- subdued
- tamed
- traduced
- transgressed
- unintelligible
- unsatisfactory
- vanquished
- violated
- weak
- wracked
- wrecked
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