Exact Match:
- broken
- physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken"
- (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts"
- not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs"
- lacking a part or parts; "a broken set of encyclopedia"
- discontinuous; "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine"
- out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted"
- destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
- weakened and infirm; "broken health resulting from alcoholism"
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"
- imperfectly spoken or written; "broken English"
- subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"
- topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"
- tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in"
Synonyms:
- aggravated,
- aloof,
- ausgespielt,
- bankrupt,
- beaten,
- blasted,
- blighted,
- broke,
- broken off,
- broken-down,
- brought low,
- bumpy,
- burned,
- burst,
- busted,
- capricious,
- careening,
- catchy,
- chastened,
- checked,
- chipped,
- chopped-off,
- choppy,
- coarse,
- coarse-grained,
- conditioned,
- conquered,
- corrugated,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- cross-grained,
- crushed,
- cut,
- damaged,
- debilitated,
- decousu,
- defeated,
- defied,
- dejected,
- demoralized,
- desolated,
- destitute,
- destroyed,
- desultory,
- detached,
- deteriorated,
- devastated,
- deviative,
- disciplined,
- disconnected,
- discontinued,
- discontinuous,
- discouraged,
- discrete,
- disintegrated,
- disjointed,
- disjunctive,
- disobeyed,
- dispirited,
- disregarded,
- disturbed,
- docile,
- domesticated,
- done for,
- done in,
- dovelike,
- down-and-out,
- eccentric,
- embittered,
- enfeebled,
- episodic,
- erratic,
- exacerbated,
- failed,
- fallen,
- felled,
- finished,
- fitful,
- flattened,
- flickering,
- fluctuating,
- fractured,
- fragmentary,
- fragmented,
- gapped,
- gentle,
- gone to pot,
- grainy,
- granulated,
- guttering,
- halting,
- harmed,
- haywire,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- homespun,
- horripilant,
- housebroke,
- housebroken,
- humble,
- humbled,
- humiliated,
- hurt,
- ignored,
- immethodical,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- in bits,
- in disrepair,
- in pieces,
- in receivership,
- in ruins,
- in shards,
- incoherent,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- inequal,
- infringed,
- injured,
- inoperative,
- insolvent,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- interrupted,
- irregular,
- irremediable,
- irritated,
- jagged,
- jerky,
- jolty,
- kaput,
- lacerated,
- lamblike,
- licked,
- linsey-woolsey,
- lurching,
- made to grovel,
- mangled,
- mastered,
- meek,
- mild,
- mutilated,
- nonadherent,
- nonadhesive,
- noncoherent,
- noncohesive,
- noncontinuous,
- nonlinear,
- nonsequential,
- nonserial,
- nonuniform,
- obedient,
- on the blink,
- on the fritz,
- on the rocks,
- open,
- out of commission,
- out of condition,
- out of gear,
- out of joint,
- out of kelter,
- out of kilter,
- out of order,
- out of repair,
- out of tune,
- out of whack,
- overthrown,
- pacific,
- parenthetic,
- patchy,
- peaceable,
- pimply,
- pitted,
- pocky,
- potholed,
- pulverized,
- put down,
- quelled,
- quiet,
- rambling,
- rank,
- ravaged,
- reduced,
- rent,
- ripply,
- rough,
- rough-cast,
- rough-grained,
- rough-hewn,
- ruffled,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- ruptured,
- rutted,
- rutty,
- scalded,
- scorched,
- scrappy,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- shattered,
- shivered,
- slashed,
- slit,
- smashed,
- snatchy,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- splintered,
- split,
- spoiled,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- sprung,
- staggering,
- subdued,
- subjugated,
- suppressed,
- suspended,
- tame,
- tamed,
- tenuous,
- textured,
- the worse for,
- torn,
- trained,
- transgressed,
- unadhesive,
- uncertain,
- uncoherent,
- uncohesive,
- unconnected,
- undone,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unjoined,
- unkempt,
- unlevel,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unregular,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unsmooth,
- unsteady,
- unsuccessive,
- unsystematic,
- untenacious,
- ununiform,
- vanquished,
- variable,
- veering,
- violated,
- wandering,
- wasted,
- wavering,
- weakened,
- wimpled,
- wobbling,
- wobbly,
- worse,
- worse off,
- worsened,
- wrecked